Due to a rise in demand for travel throughout Russia, 12 Boeing and Airbus aircraft will be put back into service.
Local media indicates that the Russian flag airline Aeroflot has started to reactivate a number of storage aircraft. This summer, as domestic and international air travel within the nation starts to pick up, twelve jets—all Boeing and Airbus—will resume service.
reentering service
Aeroflot will add a variety of Boeing 777 and 737, Airbus A321 and A350 aircraft to its fleet over the coming months, as Vedomosti reported earlier this week. At least two of the 777 (RA-73139) and 737 (RA-73110) planes have already started flying again. The jets were put into storage last year after a significant decline in air travel as a result of international sanctions against the nation.
The airline has sought to improve its fleet as a result of a noticeable rise in passenger traffic of about 50% year over year between January and March. It is also intended that three other aircraft, a 737, an A321, and an A350, will fly “shortly.””Storage was a band-aid fix.
A source from Aeroflot told Vedomosti that the measure allowed them to avoid unjustified losses and concentrate on a thorough rethinking of their international route network as well as an effective expansion of their domestic transportation market presence, with a focus in large part on regional routes with tourism potential.
present fleet
In addition to 22 Boeing 777s, 12 Airbus A330s, and 7 A350s, Aeroflot currently flies 179 aircraft, mostly a mix of contemporary Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 family narrowbodies. Following a fleet transfer to its affiliate Rossiya in 2022, the carrier also has a Sukhoi Superjet 100.Despite maintaining a sizable fleet, the carrier’s maintenance and repair (MRO) opticians are limited due to ongoing international sanctions.
Aeroflot said earlier this month that it has started offshoring work to Iran, sending one Airbus A330-300 (RA-73700) to Mahan Air’s maintenance facility in Tehran (THR) for repairs. After spending many weeks on the ground at Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO), the 11-year-old aircraft made its way to Iran on April 5. It is still there as of April 21.The carrier explained in a statement given to Reuters,
The company “has all the material resources, licenses, and extensive experience required, while the provider performs maintenance at a high level of quality.”
Additional possibilities
Following a worrying pattern in which Russian-operated aircraft experience a variety of problems brought on by insufficient access to components and maintenance, Aeroflot has decided to start using MRO facilities in Tehran. The Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia authorized the cannibalization of grounded aircraft in January to maintain the airworthiness of the nation’s current aircraft, however the action seems to have had little effect.ARBAT Media reports that during the first week of January, Russian airlines saw a record-breaking seven incidents that caused serious disruption throughout the larger network.
On January 6, there were two cases where an Azur Air flight from Novosibirsk (OVB) to Thailand returned to the airport almost six hours after takeoff. Red Wings’ second flight from Kazan (KZN) to Yekaterinburg (SVX) experienced a similar landing gear failure and was compelled to return to the airport shortly after takeoff.
