Phosphorus wrote:
So, Solvay went and gave russians advanced composites technology, already after this war began in 2014? Hmm....
What war began in 2014, and why the "hmm"?
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Phosphorus wrote:
So, Solvay went and gave russians advanced composites technology, already after this war began in 2014? Hmm....
Vicenza wrote:Phosphorus wrote:
So, Solvay went and gave russians advanced composites technology, already after this war began in 2014? Hmm....
What war began in 2014, and why the "hmm"?
dcajet wrote:Vicenza wrote:Phosphorus wrote:
So, Solvay went and gave russians advanced composites technology, already after this war began in 2014? Hmm....
What war began in 2014, and why the "hmm"?
Not all wars are fought in the battlefield. Putin's Russia has been waging a covert war against Ukraine since before 2014, In 2022 it just went all out war.
Vicenza wrote:Phosphorus wrote:
So, Solvay went and gave russians advanced composites technology, already after this war began in 2014? Hmm....
What war began in 2014, and why the "hmm"?
phugoid1982 wrote:Looks like a couple of A-350's are running sporadic SVO-LED and daily SVO-AER flights. I wonder if they will rack up more cycles being utilized on short sectors daily and need cannibalizing and maintenance sooner than if they were flying longer sectors?
Phosphorus wrote:
Another easy answer would be keeping crews current?
Phosphorus wrote:Another easy answer would be keeping crews current?
RJWNL wrote:Phosphorus wrote:Another easy answer would be keeping crews current?
What’s the use keeping crews current on planes that have no future in Russia?
dcajet wrote:You are not thinking like a Russian...
dcajet wrote:RJWNL wrote:Phosphorus wrote:Another easy answer would be keeping crews current?
What’s the use keeping crews current on planes that have no future in Russia?
You are not thinking like a Russian...
WalterFaber wrote:dcajet wrote:RJWNL wrote:
What’s the use keeping crews current on planes that have no future in Russia?
You are not thinking like a Russian...
True. Distribute bribes to enact a law that supports an airliner pilot reserve through the crisis, report big reserve pilot pool to the gouvernement, fire them, cash in the paychecks, buy a yacht.
Strato2 wrote:Several russian planes flying from Kaliningrad to LED/SVO had to turn back to Kaliningrad because of thunderous weather in the international airspace between Estonia and Finland that they could not circumvent because of closed airspace.
lightsaber wrote:Strato2 wrote:Several russian planes flying from Kaliningrad to LED/SVO had to turn back to Kaliningrad because of thunderous weather in the international airspace between Estonia and Finland that they could not circumvent because of closed airspace.
Source? Or were you quoting another link?
lightsaber wrote:This link makes a good point that the Russian airliners should start running out of tires soon. They would have had spare tires on hand, but I'm betting that 4 to 6 months after sanctions started (March 1st/2nd as noted in link, my personal estimate on the timeline), there will be a dire shortage of aircraft tires in Russia for the western aircraft. Not something easy to copy or replace:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... art/?amp=1
We're on day 127 of the invasion (4 months). So perhaps soon tires will be dear, perhaps in 2 months.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... mp;amp;amp
LJ wrote:lightsaber wrote:This link makes a good point that the Russian airliners should start running out of tires soon. They would have had spare tires on hand, but I'm betting that 4 to 6 months after sanctions started (March 1st/2nd as noted in link, my personal estimate on the timeline), there will be a dire shortage of aircraft tires in Russia for the western aircraft. Not something easy to copy or replace:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... art/?amp=1
We're on day 127 of the invasion (4 months). So perhaps soon tires will be dear, perhaps in 2 months.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... mp;amp;amp
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1470765&start=150
The above is taken from the "Newsfeed" thread. I was wondering, wouldn't Russian airlines be able to send their planes to, for exmple Antalya, and have their tires replaced? I know that there is a good audit trail, but if you've a company which isn't exposed to Wesern countries, you could at least do this for a short period. Moreover, wouldn't it be easy to load those widebodies with parts? Again, it will be one-tme only thing, but untill the Western companies realize that the parts are send to Russia, they have a few loads and thus for a few months parts.Or is this covered one way or another?
leftcoast8 wrote:What are the chances that China and India invest in/bail out Rostec? They're the Russian state company that owns Irkut, Tupolev, Aviadvigatel, Ilyushin and basically the rest of Russian aviation. UAC, which is also owned by Rostec, teamed up with Comac in China for the CRAIC CR929. Could we see big orders from Chinese or Indian carriers for SSJ100s, MC-21s? Or Air India ordering more non-western widebodies like the CR929 or Il-96-400M? PLAAF/IAF PAK DAs or Su-75s?
Or, is this a non-starter for whatever reason?
SR380 wrote:Hey guys,
Quick question: Are the Tu-214 and Il-96 operated by Rossiya Airlines (special flight squadron) in normal passenger configuration (except the Il-96-300PU)?
Could those frame be used to boost Aeroflot or Rossiya Airlines fleets?
Thanks.
Vasu wrote:How long have the Aeroflot il96s been out of service? Surely it must be very difficult to bring any back into service? Unless they were keeping them in more of a long term storage (in which case, why were they doing that?)
Pentaprism wrote:Vasu wrote:How long have the Aeroflot il96s been out of service? Surely it must be very difficult to bring any back into service? Unless they were keeping them in more of a long term storage (in which case, why were they doing that?)
They were retired in 2014. I believe there were plans to sell at least some of them to Cubana so they have probably got a bit of attention after they retired, at least for a while.
JoKeR wrote:Seems that a Ukrainian cargo aircraft (Meridian Air Cargo An-12 - UR-CIC) has crashed after attempting an emergency landing in Kavala, Northern Greece... person in the know saying the flight has originated in INI and was on its way to AMM... and was apparently carrying weapons for Ukraine from Serbia.
CrimsonNL wrote:JoKeR wrote:Seems that a Ukrainian cargo aircraft (Meridian Air Cargo An-12 - UR-CIC) has crashed after attempting an emergency landing in Kavala, Northern Greece... person in the know saying the flight has originated in INI and was on its way to AMM... and was apparently carrying weapons for Ukraine from Serbia.
Flying weapons from Serbia to Ukraine via AMM? It's most likely just a "regular" arms shipment to some overseas country unrelated to the war in Ukraine.
Vicenza wrote:CrimsonNL wrote:JoKeR wrote:Seems that a Ukrainian cargo aircraft (Meridian Air Cargo An-12 - UR-CIC) has crashed after attempting an emergency landing in Kavala, Northern Greece... person in the know saying the flight has originated in INI and was on its way to AMM... and was apparently carrying weapons for Ukraine from Serbia.
Flying weapons from Serbia to Ukraine via AMM? It's most likely just a "regular" arms shipment to some overseas country unrelated to the war in Ukraine.
Yes, normal shipment of Serbia-made weapons to Pakistan. Completely unrelated to Ukraine.
MalevTU134 wrote:Vicenza wrote:CrimsonNL wrote:
Flying weapons from Serbia to Ukraine via AMM? It's most likely just a "regular" arms shipment to some overseas country unrelated to the war in Ukraine.
Yes, normal shipment of Serbia-made weapons to Pakistan. Completely unrelated to Ukraine.
That would be East Pakistan, known since 1971 as Bangladesh.
Vicenza wrote:MalevTU134 wrote:Vicenza wrote:
Yes, normal shipment of Serbia-made weapons to Pakistan. Completely unrelated to Ukraine.
That would be East Pakistan, known since 1971 as Bangladesh.
The report only stated Pakistan, so I had/have no reason to assume Bangladesh.
MalevTU134 wrote:Vicenza wrote:MalevTU134 wrote:That would be East Pakistan, known since 1971 as Bangladesh.
The report only stated Pakistan, so I had/have no reason to assume Bangladesh.
I don't know which report, but Google gives this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62195005
art wrote:Sorry if it has been asked but how are the lessors whose airliners have been pinched by Russia doing? I imagine that company accounts reflect asset values. How are assets treated in the accounts when lessors have no control of those assets, given that they have been kidnapped ?
alberchico wrote:And the gradual rollback in sanctions now begins. As winter approaches, the threat of a total gas cutoff will force Europe to cough up even more concessions.
alberchico wrote:And the gradual rollback in sanctions now begins. As winter approaches, the threat of a total gas cutoff will force Europe to cough up even more concessions.
FlyingElvii wrote:“ ⚡️#BREAKING: The European Union lifts ban on the supply of a number of goods and services for the aviation industry, as well as financial transactions to pay for Russian oil supplies to third countries and Russian food exports - Council of the European Union”
https://twitter.com/WarfareReports/stat ... 9539104774
The ban on most aircraft parts is lifted, in return for supplying Airbus with needed Russian materials such as Aluminum and Titanium.
EU countries can now buy Russian Oil and gas, but not “Directly”, only through a third party (like Saudi Arabia, Dubai, or Turkey.
Sanctions on several Russian ports are lifted, to allow the transport of food to Europe.
riptide120 wrote:There isn't much info on the exact details, but it certainly doesn't sound like "ban on most aircraft parts is lifted", more like "activities related to ICAO work are exempt from sanctions":
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/07/21/russia-s-aggression-against-ukraine-eu-adopts-maintenance-and-alignment-package/
Pentaprism wrote:How does Iran get around the issue of sourcing tyres?
Does the exemption granted by the EU allow Russia access to software updates to it's Airbus fleets?
Really I'm surprised Russia is willing to continue to sell Titanium to Airbus. They have minimised gas exports, which would be costing them far more revenue, so it's not really a money issue.
Vicenza wrote:Pentaprism wrote:How does Iran get around the issue of sourcing tyres?
Does the exemption granted by the EU allow Russia access to software updates to it's Airbus fleets?
Really I'm surprised Russia is willing to continue to sell Titanium to Airbus. They have minimised gas exports, which would be costing them far more revenue, so it's not really a money issue.
Not at all because with the high price of gas on the world markets, they are ironically, actually earning much more revenue than before the sanctions were put in place, and by minimising supplies to some EU countries the price thus remains high.
Vicenza wrote:Not at all because with the high price of gas on the world markets, they are ironically, actually earning much more revenue than before the sanctions were put in place, and by minimising supplies to some EU countries the price thus remains high.
Pentaprism wrote:
So that represents a net loss to Russia in my opinion.
LJ wrote:Vicenza wrote:Not at all because with the high price of gas on the world markets, they are ironically, actually earning much more revenue than before the sanctions were put in place, and by minimising supplies to some EU countries the price thus remains high.
Theree are different gas/oil prices depending on where the gas/oil comes from. India and China are reported to get a 30% discount on the market price for Russian gas/oil. In case of India this is necessary as the transport costs to India are relatively high (not so much capacity via pipelines).. How much India and China actually pay Russia is unknown, but it certainly not arket price (why owuld they iif they know Russia can't sell much to Europe).
scbriml wrote:ReverseFlow wrote:It's not the lack of equipment that's going to ground the fleets but lack of consumable parts like brakes and tyres.
The reality is, we've known this from the day sanctions were first imposed. As soon as they've gone through their stock of spares (of any part), they're done.
Noshow wrote:Many sanctions can be bypassed through backdoors it seems. But this makes getting stuff much more difficult and expensive. The normal flight operations finally receive not enough parts required even with bypassing the problem just takes a little longer to pile up. Western style high pressure aircraft tyres are said to be one of the key parts constantly needed. And today parts are trackable over their entire service life. It is much harder to trade stuff elsewhere on hidden routes.