Sanctions came into effect at the end of February, due to which Russia has not received, for example, spare parts and maintenance for its aircraft.
The Russian national airline Aeroflot has started dismantling its Airbus and Boeing aircraft in the hope of spare parts.
According to information from the Reuters news agency, the airline Aeroflot has dismantled equipment from at least two Boeing 737 aircraft and an Airbus A320.
In addition, Aeroflot has removed the engine of the domestic Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft and installed it on another plane. The company has also introduced parts of the almost new Airbus A350.
The news agency Reuters was told about this by four sources who remain anonymous.
According to sources, other Russian airlines have also started taking parts of the planes.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Ministry of Transport Yuri Borisov said a Russian news agency in June Tassi (you switch to another service) according to that by resorting to the dismantling of spare parts, Russian airlines will be able to use their Airbus and Boeing planes safely at least until 2027.
Flightradar (you switch to another service)– website, the airline Aeroflot currently has 178 planes in use. Since the end of July, the airline has not flown 50 of its planes.
Three of the seven Airbus A350 planes owned by the company have not flown at all in the last three months.
Russia has used Western passenger planes
About 80 percent of Aeroflot’s passenger planes have been purchased from abroad.
Although the state has financed the domestic production of airplanes, for example the Russian Suhoi Superjet planes are mostly assembled from Western components that are no longer available.
In the next few years, the useful life of the engines of the machines will come to an end, and the latest updates of the electronic devices will no longer be available, estimates for example Bloomberg (you will switch to another service).
At the end of February, most of the countries of the European Union imposed a flight ban on Russian planes in European airspace.
At the same time, the Airbus and Boeing companies demand that Russia return the planes rented through a leasing contract.
Only a part, i.e. about 80 machines, managed to be returned to the leasing companies.
In the spring, Russia nationalized around 400 European planes. They have flown domestic flights during the spring.
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