US EditionRussia Restores Old Planes to Address Growing Airline Fleet Shortages
- Russian airlines plan to restore 12 older planes in 2026-2027 to address an aircraft shortage, as reported by Rostec.
- Ten of the restored aircraft have already been operational, according to Izvestia.
- Funding for aircraft production and maintenance is being cut by the Russian government, as per the draft federal budget for 2026-2028.
- Experts indicate that reviving mothballed planes is essential to meet passenger demand amid ongoing sanctions affecting the aviation sector.
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Russian airlines are running out of jets: Increasingly, old passenger planes have to be revived – and US aircraft are being used.
Sanctions imposed on Russia are particularly crushing air transport. Airlines are abandoning the system of preserving old aircraft this year in order to be able to continue transporting passengers, writes the website of the Izvestia daily.
Russian airlines in 2026-2027 plan to massively return to service preserved aircraft of Soviet and foreign production, which are more than 30 years old.
Russian airlines are reading in the service of old aircraft, both domestic and foreign, which have been removed from use before the declaration of large-scale invasion against Ukraine, reports Izvetja, reading sources and...
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