“Without Russian aircraft, our civil aviation has no future”

Over the past year and a half, the Russian aviation industry has been subjected to the most serious tests in modern history: carriers have not only lost the marginal Western market, but also the opportunity to replenish their fleets with foreign equipment and service the cars already received from foreign providers. Aeroflot suffered the most, as it built its work on the basis of transit passenger traffic between East Asia and the countries of the West, which stopped since the spring of last year. The company had to significantly rebuild the route network and master new types of maintenance of foreign aircraft.

In an interview with Vedomosti, the general director of the national carrier, Sergei Aleksandrovsky, spoke about the first firm contract under the new conditions for the supply of Russian aircraft, about advancing negotiations with foreign lessors, raising salaries for airline employees and connecting Pobeda to the Aeroflot Bonus program.