Rosaviatsia cuts support for airlines by 3 billion rubles

The decision of the Federal Air Transport Agency to provide subsidies for 32 airlines, adopted in June this year, “taking into account the applications of airlines” has been amended. They touched upon the reduction of financial support for seven airlines from the register for subsidies, the initial budget of the program was 100 billion rubles. was cut by approximately 3 billion rubles.

“In connection with cost savings, the funds provided to airlines as part of state support for their operations for the implementation of domestic flights have been redistributed,” explains the budget adjustment in a press release from the agency (Kommersant has it).

The document on changes to the June decision clarifies that funding was cut for Alrosa, Vityaz-Aero, Yuvt Aero, Yakutia, Vologda Aviation Enterprise, UTair and Yamal. The largest amount of deviation from the initial amount of financing under the agreement is fixed in the case of UTair: -2,359,104,269 rubles.

In June it became known that 32 Russian airlines will receive subsidies for domestic flights within Russia. About half of the subsidies (49.9 billion rubles) were received by Aeroflot.

On subsidizing the aviation industry – in the material “Kommersant” “Airlines have not arrived yet”.

Andrey Sapozhnikov