The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of Rostec) and Aeroflot signed an agreement to supply the airline with 339 aircraft in 2023-2030, the transaction amount will exceed a record one trillion rubles. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the press service of the company.
The agreement provides for the transfer on a lease basis of 210 MS-21, 89 Superjet-New and 40 Tu-214 aircraft. In 2023, Aeroflot should receive two Superjet New, in 2024 – six MS-21 and seven Tu-214. The first supply contracts should be signed before the end of 2022.
Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov said that domestic aircraft are planned to replace Boeing and Airbus, which "are unlikely to ever be delivered to Russia again." According to him, all aircraft will be in an "import-substituted form" – with on-board systems and units of Russian production.
The fact that the amount of the agreement will exceed a trillion rubles was reported by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. According to him, the state will subsidize the purchase mainly from the National Welfare Fund, fixing the delivery price for airlines. Aeroflot CEO Sergei Aleksandrovsky, in turn, said that this is the largest agreement on the acquisition of domestic aircraft in the entire recent history of Aeroflot.
MS-21, which the company promised to deliver as early as 2024, has not yet entered serial production, they promise to launch it in 2017. RIA Novosti reported that the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, promised to start mass production of the Russian MS-21 in 2024.
In July, it became known that Aeroflot was getting rid of flight attendants due to sanctions losses. Subsidiary airline "Rossiya" closed the office of flight attendants in Yekaterinburg, its number is approximately 80 employees. As it became known to The Insider, Aeroflot is also trying to get rid of staff: they don’t fire flight attendants directly, but they create conditions for people to leave on their own and in large numbers. Many want to move from Russia.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said in June that airlines would receive a thousand domestic aircraft by 2030: 770 billion rubles will be allocated for this purpose in the next seven years. According to him, about 140 SSJ New aircraft, 270 MS-21-310 aircraft, 70 Il-114-300 and Tu-214 aircraft should be built. However, as an aviation expert, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Insider, such a plan is completely unrealistic.