Russian aviation feels weight of sanctions – Ukrainian overseas intelligence

Russia's state-owned airline Aeroflot has warned of an additional important rise in the price of air journey. Common fares have already elevated by 6% within the first half of 2025, but that is described solely as the start of a lot steeper hikes to come back.

Supply: a report from Ukraine's International Intelligence Service

Particulars: The report states that hovering prices related to plane and passenger servicing are driving costs up.

Quote: "A deepening disaster in upkeep can also be highlighted: a scarcity of spare elements and servicing attributable to sanctions has led to an increase in mechanical failures and emergency landings."

Extra particulars: This creates not solely inconvenience however mounting threats to flight security throughout Russia.

Quote: "One notably acute challenge is the rising share of airport costs, which on some routes have reached 30% of the ticket value."

Extra particulars: The more and more critical challenge of the technical situation of plane is including to this: due to a scarcity of spare elements and upkeep beneath sanctions, the variety of breakdowns is rising, and with it the variety of emergency landings."

Extra particulars: To compensate, Russian airways are imposing an extra "infrastructure charge" that finally ends up falling on passengers.

Aeroflot's chief govt has conceded that it’s not possible to cross all rising bills onto carriers themselves, and he acknowledged there are not any various sources of income. He stated that this will likely result in a really important improve in the price of flights.

Ukraine's International Intelligence Service studies that regardless of repeated claims from Moscow that sanctions don’t work, Russia's aviation sector is struggling.

Restrictions on entry to fashionable plane, spare elements and correct servicing are intensifying the disaster.

Quote: "Ultimately, the primary hostages of the scenario are passengers, who will likely be paying for the trade's rising prices out of their very own pockets."

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