The head of S7 called the repair of aircraft under sanctions a difficult task

Dmitry Kudelkin noted that, despite the sanctions , over the past year and a half, the requirementsto flight safety for Russian airlines have not changed in any way

The situation with spare parts for aircraft can be described rather than as some kind of difficulty, but as the need to solve "difficult tasks," Dmitry Kudelkin, general director of the S7 Group holding, told reporters.

He was asked if the company is experiencing difficulties with spare parts.

“I want to note that the requirements for flight safety and airworthiness have not changed in any way over the past year and a half. I would not call [the situation with spare parts] complexities, I would say that there are tasks, they are not easy, ”Kudelnik answered.

He also said that the S7 Group employs about 3 thousand engineers and aircraft technicians and they "know their job."

Since February 2022, the European Union has repeatedly tightened sanctions against Russia. They also affected the aviation industry: a ban was introduced on the sale of aircraft, spare parts for them, as well as on their maintenance and insurance. The US Department of Commerce has taken similar action.

In May, specialists from the British aviation consulting company IBA predicted that Russian airlines would have enough stocks of aircraft components for three months, Bloomberg wrote . And in August, Reuters sources told Reuters that sanctioned Russian carriers had begun disassembling some aircraft to ensure parts were available.

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In March 2023, Minister of Transport Vitaly Savelyev denied reports that airlines began to dismantle aircraft for parts (the practice of cannibalization). “To date, out of 1,167 aircraft, not a single aircraft has been cannibalized. We don't have cannibalization as we assumed. All aircraft are operating normally, we are all provided with spare parts, I want to emphasize that these are normal, certified spare parts, they are not made on the knee, ”he said. According to Savelyev, the fleet of aircraft operated by Russian airlines can be maintained in working order for about another ten years.

Such a period was named in an interview with RBC by the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko. He opposed the use of the term "cannibalization", noting that the transfer of serviceable parts from aircraft to aircraft is a common practice that existed during the Soviet era.