The Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, Vitaly Savelyev, said that the number of the Russian air fleet is 1,300 aircraft. The statement was made by him on the broadcast of the Russia-24 TV channel.
According to Savelyev, the current 1,167 passenger planes are capable of transporting 100 million people a year.
It is stated that Russian airlines carried more than 111 million passengers in 2021 and 95 million in 2022.
Before that Saveliev reported About the “lost” of 78 of 1367 aircraft by Russia due to sanctions. The minister noted that before the sanctions were imposed, authorities expect air travel to return to pre-COVID levels (128.1 million people in 2019) within one and a half to two years.
At the same time, the head of the Ministry of Transport spoke out categorically against the free admission of foreign airlines to domestic flights in the absence of their own aircraft.
According to Savelyev, some points of Russia’s transport strategy may be revised depending on the changing situation, but this strategy remains “valid”.
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