Due to the fact that the country's largest air carriers bought airliners from foreign leasing companies
We already wrote that last week S7 Airlines, «Ural Airlines» and «Russia» purchased a total of 66 aircraft from foreign leasing companies — and all of them are available for flights abroad. But this is not all the acquisitions of Russian carriers: Aeroflot bought another 26 aircraft.
As reported by Air Transport Review, the leasing company Dubai Aerospace Enterprise received $118 million for seven Aeroflot aircraft, and the Chinese China Aircraft Leasing Company (CALC) received $23.57 million for one Aeroflot aircraft. There is no data on payments to other lessors for the purchase of the national carrier’s aircraft.
All these 92 aircraft can be used for flights abroad, but so far this is not particularly in demand: according to the Federal Air Transport Agency, as of November of this year, international air traffic has been established with 37 countries, 18 Russian airlines operate international flights. Therefore, most of the purchased aircraft will be used on domestic flights.