About 50 Aeroflot aircraft are idle and do not fly. This is more than a quarter of the company’s fleet.
According to the “Base”, most of them – 25 boards – are cannibalized. Serviceable parts are already being removed from them and rearranged to other aircraft.
Another 18 boards are under maintenance and waiting for repairs. True, they can wait a long time – Aeroflot lacks slats, headlights, auxiliary power units, air intakes, oxygen generators and engines. There is also a problem with braking devices: the airline has only a few similar parts for different types of aircraft in stock.
One of the Boeing 737s, for example, is in storage due to mercury spilled in the luggage compartment. Its European counterpart, the Airbus 350, cannot take off and land due to a lack of spare tires. Another part of the aircraft (four Airbuses) will be transferred to the lessor from 2020-2021, and three aircraft from the fleet have simply been arrested and cannot fly.
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