We're moving out of money to support civilian aviation in Russia.

Russian airlines began cancelling flights across the country due to a simplification in state support for 2023 for regional flights without Moscow. “Izwistia” writes about this, citing 3 manufacture sources. The origin is in the economy. Its problems in relation to a number of expenditure items against the budget deficit. ( an article on the deficit is available on the website entitled "CHAPTER IN THE RUSSIAN BUDGET" ) The most cancelled flights are in the Omsk and Tiumene region, in Tatarstan, St Petersburg, Dagestan and North Ossetia," the study states.

For example, flight programs on the Kemerowo – Read routes, Nizhny Novgorod – Pietrozawodsk routes were cancelled. The airline “Russia” cancelled 2 weekly flights from St. Petersburg to Tobolsk .The program was cut from 9 billion rubles to 7.5 billion rubles, i.e. by 16.7%, due to the cut of state budget expenditure. In general, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation was ordered to reduce costs by 5%. And the cost is the easiest to cut in aviation. Here they have problems with the services and availability of parts so it is easy to quit flying machines that are on the verge of resurs.

The Russian regional authorities are presently in a hard situation, with national support being promised on the 1 hand and to this end demanding the improvement of local airport infrastructure and air terminals for future flights, on the another hand, cutting funding. In a while, there'll be a time to verify plans and accounts. For reports to Moscow to look good we will deal with the classical "bardak" and the upturning of statistic in Excel in order to preserve a warm job.

Earlier in mid-April, the Russian Ministry of Transport had warned against a possible increase in ticket prices for home flights of 15-30% due to a fall in transport subsidies during the summertime period 2023. If you do not know the subject, in Russia, any flights between regions were simply financially supported by the State. They were not economically viable, but they had to be supported in order not to exclude individual regions and to keep specified a large state in the sense of a large community. The question is whether regions that have just liquidated flights to Moscow or St. Petersburg and increases in ticket prices will not make this feeling of exclusion?

The summertime period in aviation lasts from late March to late October. Last year, airlines received 100 billion rubles from the state to cover home transport costs during this period. That money's already been burned. specified grants were granted in the context of restrictions on sanctions imposed after Russia's full invasion of Ukraine which hit the Russian aviation industry. They have increased the "survivability" of aviation in Russia, while we are approaching the wall, as there are at the same time 3 factors.

The first 1 I wrote on TT in April. Aircraft manufacturers and the US government have intensified efforts to seal sanctions in aviation. Airbus president announced that they would break relations with anyone who would aid service his liners in Russia. The authoritative message is as follows:

"Any supplier, airline or aircraft maintenance company for Russia will be excluded from the list of Airbus customers. There are no legal ways that first spare parts, documentation and services can scope Russian carriers.” He added, later that he talks about all place in the planet not only EU and US. According to a spokesperson for Boeing, the maker ceased providing parts and method support to both airlines and maintenance operators in Russia in early 2022. For the record, the fleet of aircraft in Russia is mostly either Boeing and Airbus aircraft, or their larger Superjet 100 products, which besides contain elements of the above mentioned manufacturers. By the way, I was writing at the end of last year how much problem the availability of parts has with the maker of Superjet 100 aircraft or Sukhoi. With plans to make about 20 aircraft in 2022 ended with 2. Both had parts of service equipment due to the deficiency of fresh parts. And as far as I can remember, at the end of November 2022, only 1 of these 2 aircraft had undergone all inspections and was allowed to move.

The second subject that makes flying hard for Russians is the U.S. government that sends its officials around the planet to track parallel imports, and to push governments of individual countries to retreat from supporting specified actions. Here again I mention to a longer entry on this subject on Twitter - Mr Zen, while I will mention only the situation with Turkey from March of this year. Turkey has stopped servicing Russian airlines' aircraft. It is aircraft originating from Airbus and Boeing and produced in the USA. Airporthaber portal reported that this decision had been taken by the Ministry of Customs and Trade of Turkey following a letter from the Department of manufacture and safety of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The 3rd origin is that money is actually missing. The budget gap in Russia for April 26 was $72 billion , Air traffic backing last year cost 100 billion rubles. This year, due to the fact that the number of aircraft that require maintenance and parts increased avalanchely, the costs would most likely be respective times higher. I remind you, parts for engines like Airbus can't be bought on the Internet. If a company is to effort to circumvent sanctions, and political pressure, it will number for those parts like gold. With the request now made, the costs of 100 billion rubles would most likely be multiplied. You gotta cut flights, cannibalize and ground more machines. There's no another way.