Flight delay

The deadlines for the supply of new aircraft for Transaero are postponed by the FSUE Kazan Aviation Production Association (KAPO) intend to transfer the deadlines for the delivery of the first passenger aircraft Tu-214 for the Transaero airline from December 2005 for the second quarter of 2006. This was announced yesterday by the Deputy General Director of Marketing CAPO Ravil Mingaleev. According to him, the main reason lies in the delay in the transfer of 3.25 billion rubles provided for by the federal budget for the development of airline in 2005.

In the summer of this year, Mikhail Fradkov signed an order on the distribution of 6 billion rubles between the “financial leasing company” and “Ilyushin Finance”. However, the money was never transferred to the accounts of companies. “When approving the schedule for the construction of aircraft for Transaero, we proceeded from the fact that federal funds in the amount of 3.25 billion rubles were to be received in March. Due to their absence, we are forced to make adjustments to our business plan and transfer the terms of transmission of the Transaero machine.

At the same time, the CEO of FLC Evgeny Zaritsky told Gazeta yesterday: “No delay in the implementation of the contract and the timing of construction of the airliner for Transaero. In December of this year, as planned, the plane will be handed over. ” Zaritsky assured that “the aircraft is in a high degree of readiness”, and it was built at the expense of the FLC credit lines. “In order not to stop the execution of the contract with Transaero, we attracted bank loans on the security of two aircraft operating Dalavavia,” a source in the FLC said. Now there is a process of approving the directive of the Government of the Russian Federation on the transfer of 3.25 billion rubles, Zaritsky explains. Until the end of this week, all questions should be finally removed.

“I would not want to comment on the terms of delivery of the Tu-214. We are glad to each aircraft and work on this contract. But we want the aircraft to comply with all the parameters necessary, including for the use of a car on international routes, ”explains the transaero press secretary Sergey Bykhal.

Recall that the Airlines "Transaero" and "Finance Leasing" entered into three financial lease agreements (leasing) of ten Tu-214 aircraft in the amount of about $ 600 million in late February. The carrier intended to lease a period of 15 years, liners collected for CAPO.

At the same time, Transaero expected the first Kazan liner in December 2005, the next four in 2006, the rest - until 2008. The signing of contracts for leasing domestic aircraft became the requirement of the Ministry of Economic Development, which extended the validity of the investments in December, according to which Transaero saved 132.1 million dollars on duty -free import of foreign aircraft into Russia.

This story resembles an Aeroflot deal for the purchase of IL aircraft. Back in 1999, the airline promised the state to acquire domestic liners in exchange for exemption from customs duties and VAT (in an amount of more than 40% of the cost of equipment) when importing 27 Boeing and Airbus aircraft. As a result, Ily has not yet been acquired-the deal between Ilyushin Finance and Aeroflot for financial leasing Six IL-96-300 in the amount of $ 344.5 million was approved by companies only recently.

However, the implementation of the contract may again be delayed. In the midst of a scandal related to the ban on IL-96 flights, the Board of Directors of the Carrier decided to fix in the contract documentation of "guarantees of a high degree of reliability of aircraft." As of the beginning of October, the company was not going to transfer advance payments until the parties sign the appropriate addition to the contract.

10.10.2005 / Anastasia Gerasimova, the material was published in the newspaper No. 192 dated 11.10.2005.