Aeroflot Group and S7 Airlines have called on Moscow to review its prohibition on wet leasing as the number of airworthy aircraft in Russia gradually shrinks.
Russian airlines continue to maintain foreign-made commercial airliners despite Western sanctions that banned spare parts delivery to the country a year ago.
The Russian government has allocated RUB237 billion to facilitate the deliveries of new locally made commercial aircraft to the country’s domestic carriers.
Russian carriers have been barred from almost all of Europe’s airspace as part of sanctions imposed by the European Union following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.