Turkish operator warns about risks of servicing Russian Boeings

Turkey's largest airfield aircraft maintenance operator, Havas, has warned about the risks of servicing Russian airliners, which use more than 25% of US-made technologies and components, RBC learned .

Almost talking about Boeing aircraft. More than 170 liners of Russian airlines, seven Belarusian and four Iranian, are under threat of denial of service. The largest operator is Aeroflot, but the list includes airliners of other companies of its group - Pobeda and Rossiya, as well as S7, Utair, Ural Airlines, Red Wings, Nordwind, Yamal, cargo AirBridgeCargo and the largest charter airline Russian Azur Air. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Gulfstream G650 business jets are mentioned, which according to the company belong to Roman Abramovich, RBC notes.

In the letter, Havas refers to the restrictions of the US Department of Commerce, introduced in the spring of 2022, as well as recent warnings from this department to Turkish companies.

• last week that the United States is demanding that Turkey stop circumventing sanctions and ban flights on Boeing aircraft from Russia learned The Wall Street Journal . Presumably in Turkey, they not only refuel, but also get access to American spare parts. According to the newspaper, Russian and Belarusian airlines, including Aeroflot, have made more than 2,100 flights to Turkey on Boeing 777, 757 and 737 series since October.
• Today, an interview was published with the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko, who said that Western aircraft of Russian airlines will be able to “fly calmly” until 2030. The official also urged to avoid the term "cannibalization" in relation to the rearrangement of serviceable components from aircraft to aircraft.
• Aeroflot plans to have 500 aircraft by 2030, of which 70% will be Russian-made. Now the fleet of the company itself has two domestic aircraft (Superjet) out of 180, but they prevail (75 out of 133) in Rossiya.