The Air Transport Operators Association has applied to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation with a proposal for three new measures of state support for the Russian aviation industry. In this respect Wrote Kommersant newspaper.
The first measure includes the distribution of subsidies for the Superjet ships SSJ 100 to the new Tu-214s. SSJ 100 support funds are now provided as part of the Aviation Industry Development government program, including “improving SSJ 100 serviceability.” In 2023-2025, 7.83 billion rubles were allocated for this. yearly. Currently, the Tu-214 does not meet the criteria for state subsidies.
The second measure is to co-finance the replacement of Superjet engines manufactured before 2022 with domestically produced PD-8s. We are talking about funds for the re-motorization of the SSJ: the replacement of the SaM-146 engines of the Russian-French PowerJet joint venture with domestic, but hitherto unapproved PD-8s. The amount of subsidy required for this is not specified in the article, it continues from the article.
The third measure provides for the removal of the obligation to provide bank and government guarantees for the purchase and lease of new aircraft.
According to the experts interviewed by the newspaper, the latest initiative has a better chance of being implemented than the others. In 2020, the required amount of state guarantees for loans to lessors 59 SSJ 100 is estimated at about 140 billion rubles.
On March 25, the head of the Ministry of Transport, Vitaly Savelyev, in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russian airlines carried 416,000 more passengers in March 2023 than the Ministry of Transport had planned.