What Happened
Russian Airlines Face Technical Crisis Under Western Sanctions
Aeroflot CEO Sergei Alexandrovsky has warned that Russian airlines will face a gradual loss of their Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) fleets due to the inability to afford replacing foreign-made engines with domestic ones without significant government subsidies. The struggle to replace domestic engines is part of a larger technical crisis facing Russia’s commercial aviation sector under Western sanctions. This was reported by The Moscow Times, according to UNITED24 Media.