Summer 2022 will be complicated for Russian airlines
The sanctions imposed by the European Union, the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries are causing serious problems for Russian airlines. Lessors are demanding the return of their aircraft and the supply of spare parts is no longer guaranteed. Due to the sanctions, more and more lessors are demanding the return of aircraft leased to Russian carriers. There is a relatively short transition period, but the lay-up has already begun. Around half of the total fleet operated by Russian airlines is leased from Western lessors. Some of the aircraft are registered abroad for tax reasons, mainly in Ireland and Bermuda. However, this does not affect the fact that the sanctions are affecting leasing transactions with Russian companies. The result is that many carriers will gradually lose their aircraft. But that's not all: Boeing announced that it will stop providing technical support and supplying spare parts to Russian suppliers. Other manufacturers are expected to act in a similar way. This means that airlines will also have serious problems with aircraft that they own or lease from Chinese lessors, for example. Iran has proven over many years that it is possible to fly with "homemade" spare parts, but in the short term the Russian Federation may lack the necessary know-how to build replicas. In the long term, this would certainly be a solution, but the aircraft would then immediately lose any resale value and many countries could refuse to allow them to fly due to security concerns. "Soviet metal" could be reactivated
and 