China has refused to supply aircraft parts to Russian airlines, a representative of Russia’s aviation authority said, according to Russian news agencies, on Thursday, after Boeing and Airbus stopped supplying components. .
Russia’s aviation industry is under pressure from Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, and the Russian Foreign Ministry warned this week that the safety of Russian passenger flights was threatened.
According to agencies such as Interfax, a Rosaviatsia official, Valery Kudinov, in charge of airworthiness maintenance, said Russia would seek opportunities to source parts from countries such as Turkey and India after a failed attempt to obtain them from China.
He also stated that Russian companies are registering their planes in Russia, many of which were registered abroad, following US and European Union aviation sanctions.
Separately, a draft bill published on Thursday showed that the Russian government plans to order domestic airlines to pay for leased aircraft in rubles and may prevent them from returning planes to foreign companies if leases are cancelled.
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