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Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Re: Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Post by xeeeeeeeeeeenu »

Belsat's article[1] is a bit more detailed and I found this fragment interesting:

>According to Andrei Kramarenko, a leading expert at the Institute of Transport Economics of the Higher School of Economics, passenger traffic in Russia has almost stopped growing due to insufficient supply. In September, Russia's Ministry of Transport revised its annual forecast to last year's level of 103 million passengers carried by aircraft.

>Seat occupancy on Russian passenger planes this summer reached 93-95 percent. The expert believes that the situation will fail to improve next year, which may prompt airlines to simultaneously reduce average annual flight times and maximize redistribution of their share of seat supply toward the summer when effective demand and ticket margins are several times higher.

So basically it seems that their airlines are stretched thin.

[1] - https://en.belsat.eu/83600150/russia-half-of-airbus-a320-and...

Re: Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Post by lawn »

sedan_baklazhan wrote: post #5
layer8 wrote: post #4

The article also notes that A320/A321neo only make up 5% of the fleets of Russian airlines.

So essentially this news is about 2.5% of the fleet. The article also talks about early airplanes of these models being unreliable.

It's also hints at the much larger maintenance problem that Russia has.

Re: Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Post by sedan_baklazhan »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #9
sedan_baklazhan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Total fleet of civilian airplanes. Specifically S7 seems to be quite impacted (and they're about the only company impacted), but it sounds like it's mostly due to the low quality of these planes.

The problem is not the planes, but the maintenance requirements for the engines on those planes and Russia cannot do any maintenance due to the sanctions. In general flying in Russia has been a pretty questionable experience since the beginning of the war. Their regulator is still barely functional at this moment and a lot of secrecy is happening. For instance you will find barely any incidents reports any more. We h…

I haven't heard of any accidents in civilian air traffic in Russia in last few years. Of course you're free to make your choices. Anyway, don't overestimate the issue: 2.5% of the fleet seems to be grounded right now.

Re: Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Post by sedan_baklazhan »

lawn wrote: post #13
sedan_baklazhan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So essentially this news is about 2.5% of the fleet. The article also talks about early airplanes of these models being unreliable.

It's also hints at the much larger maintenance problem that Russia has.

Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

Re: Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Post by reducesuffering »

Etheryte wrote: post #10

Articles like these are a good example that while Russia often tries to downplay or outright deny the sanctions have any effect on them, they do work. This is only one specific example with a specific plane model, but their whole airline industry is facing similar issues on many fronts. Many repairs that used to be business as usual are now either prohibitively expensive or downright impossible due to the sanctions.…

The Russian Ruble is also starting to do very bad again:

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=RUB&view=5Y

Re: Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Post by sedan_baklazhan »

Etheryte wrote: post #10

Articles like these are a good example that while Russia often tries to downplay or outright deny the sanctions have any effect on them, they do work. This is only one specific example with a specific plane model, but their whole airline industry is facing similar issues on many fronts. Many repairs that used to be business as usual are now either prohibitively expensive or downright impossible due to the sanctions.…

>There's a reason why they closed off their stock market That's a completely false information. The stock market isn't closed.

Re: Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions

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Post by slater »

xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote: post #11

Belsat's article[1] is a bit more detailed and I found this fragment interesting: >According to Andrei Kramarenko, a leading expert at the Institute of Transport Economics of the Higher School of Economics, passenger traffic in Russia has almost stopped growing due to insufficient supply. In September, Russia's Ministry of Transport revised its annual forecast to last year's level of 103 million passengers carried by…

Is a ~95% seat occupancy considered bad...?
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