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Not worthless enough to be grounded by countries such as Thailand who are not sanctioned by the USA for their trade with Russia.
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Originally Posted by Mike Flynn
(Post 11580230)
Not worthless enough to be grounded by countries such as Thailand who are not sanctioned by the USA for their trade with Russia.
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 11580227)
That said, many of the illegally RA-reregistered aircraft are still technically on the Bermudan register. But they are, as you rightly say, now worthless.
The RA- aircraft have actually retained (increased?) their value in Ruzzia, they just happen to be worthless elsewhere. Look at the heartache over the Tundra Airbus ("Fly with us; we're outstanding in our field"). Dollars and euros are also worthless, but only on Perseus Omicron 4. |
More problems for Russian airlines.
S7 Airlines (S7, Novosibirsk) is having to downsize its employee and flight-crew headcount in Moscow due to frequency cuts and route changes forced on it by a fifth of its aircraft being grounded over problems with their A320/1neo fleet's Pratt & Whitney engines, Kommersant reported. The engine issues are exacerbated because international sanctions against Russia make scheduling repairs on them impossible. According to the ch-aviation fleets module, Russia’s biggest privately-owned airline by fleet size operates a total of 99 aircraft. Of these, 25 are currently inactive including fifteen A320neo and A321neo jets with PW1000G engines: seven of its thirty-one A320-200Ns, all four of its A321-200Ns, and all four of its A321-200NX. S7 Airlines had already said in October that its winter schedules would be cut by 10-15% compared to the previous year to account for the grounded Airbus narrowbodies. In December, S7 Group’s chairman of the board, Evgeny Elin, warned of a looming engine crunch in Russia. Sources told Kommersant that the decision to cut staff numbers in Moscow is also linked to S7’s plans to expand its presence in Russia’s regions as well as bolster its main hub at Novosibirsk, where there is less competition with other major players. S7 Group has its headquarters in Ob, Novosibirsk Oblast, in southwestern Russia. Some employees have been offered the opportunity to work at the company’s offices there or in Irkutsk, while pilots have reportedly been offered the chance to retrain with different aircraft types. S7 Airlines operates 22.7% of its total capacity at Novosibirsk and 23.7% at Moscow Domodedovofor the week starting January 22, ch-aviation capacities data shows. Third on the list is Irkutsk International with 6.9%. Aeroflot and its budget subsidiary Pobeda have said they are ready to hire laid-off flight attendants from S7. However, aviation insiders who Kommersant interviewed speculated that workforce reductions at S7 may precede layoffs at other Russian carriers as traffic volumes are languishing 18% below pre-pandemic levels. But the sanctions heaped on Russia for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have hurt S7, with its comparatively modern fleet, the most due to the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engine problems, they added. One source at the airline said that the group aims to cut about 13% of the staff at the Moscow office (other estimates suggest it will be closer to 15%), equivalent to around 7% of the total number of employees. A source said that S7 is undergoing a reorganisation and merger of several legal entities, optimising the staffing tables, but that the company will be focusing more on developing its technical and engineering divisions with plans to increase the number of personnel in these units. |
Aren't the Chinese making aftermarket parts for western aircraft, or is that kind of practice below them?
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Originally Posted by jolihokistix
(Post 11582201)
Aren't the Chinese making aftermarket parts for western aircraft, or is that kind of practice below them?
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Reports of three engine failures on S7 airline during the last three days:
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Thats probably the reason they leave the Ural A320-Agro on the field. There is no shortage of Airbus airframes, and engines are easier to transport and in high demand.
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It got chopped up.
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Originally Posted by Less Hair
(Post 11586425)
It got chopped up.
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It looks like Russia is buying out those aircraft it "stole" from the lessors.
Russian airlines have reached settlements with Western-based aircraft leasing companies for over 100 aircraft. Summary
Buying aircraft from Western lessorsNLK-Finance received RUB107.7 billion ($1.2 billion), while the FNB also allocated RUB34.4 billion ($385.6 million) to Avia Capital Services. MinFin said the latter received funds to finance the infrastructure project ‘Preferential Leasing Project for Domestic Aircraft’.Meanwhile, NLK-Finance, a subsidiary of the state-owned insurance company NSK, has been buying out aircraft from Western-based lessors. For example, in December 2023, GA Telesis announced that the firm received a cash insurance settlement for two Airbus single-aisle aircraft leased to Rossiya, a member of the Aeroflot group. As a result of the settlement, GA Telesis dropped its claims against NSK, Aeroflot, and Rossiya, with the settlements and the transfer of the funds being approved by the United States (US) Department of the Treasury (USDT). https://simpleflying.com/russia-spen...estern-planes/ |
What would be the advantage for Russia to buy them? Surely they could just continue without paying for the planes.
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Originally Posted by krismiler
(Post 11580161)
Without the maintenance records and likely fitted with dodgy parts they are basically scrap metal. No reputable airline will buy one and no reputable authority will put it on the register.
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Originally Posted by JapanHanuma
(Post 11589430)
You should remember that Russian airlines are still flying to most parts of Asia so there must be some safety records to show authorities.
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Originally Posted by JapanHanuma
(Post 11589427)
What would be the advantage for Russia to buy them? Surely they could just continue without paying for the planes.
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This might be more of a gambit to help stay in ICAO.
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One wonders how many counterfeit parts will Be on those aircraft 👀
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Originally Posted by JapanHanuma
(Post 11589430)
You should remember that Russian airlines are still flying to most parts of Asia so there must be some safety records to show authorities.
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Originally Posted by Big Pistons Forever
(Post 11589653)
This might be more of a gambit to help stay in ICAO.
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 11590102)
Russia will be thrown out of ICAO at the same time it's thrown out of the UN, the former being an agency of the latter.
I wouldn't hold your breath. https://time.com/6256488/russia-unit...deserved-seat/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/2022/...urity-council/ While I don't expect anything to come of it, it is one of those things hanging in the background that might become relevant. |
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