INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russias largest airline, Aeroflot, is poised to resume routine scheduled flights to Kazakhstan, regardless of a substantial portion of its
fleet being at the heart of legal action from plane-leasing firms seeking the return of their aircraft.The airline stated in a statement on
27 that it is already selling tickets for flights from Russia to Astana, Almaty and Atyrau, which are due to reboot on Feb
Aeroflot says it will use Airbus A320 airplanes on those routes.An official in Kazakhstans government has informed Eurasianet that just
airplane formerly bought outright by Aeroflot from foreign leasing companies will be permitted to service those flights
The aircrafts that we will enable to fly into Kazakhstan are simply Russian-owned, so they have been purchased out from the leasing
business, the main said.Reuters reported in May that Aeroflot had purchased 8 Airbus A330 models from foreign leasing business
It doubts, nevertheless, that these are the exact same airplanes that will be utilized to bring passengers to Kazakhstan, given that
Aeroflot referred in its declaration to A320s, which are created to finish shorter-haul flights.Aeroflot says it prepares two everyday
flights to Astana, three to Almaty, and two flights weekly to Atyrau.The number of leased aircrafts that Russia has purchased from lessors
is only a portion of the total of around 400 approximately that were stranded there after airplane leases were terminated as a result of
In the wake of those sanctions, Russian airline companies refrained from traveling to a lot of foreign destinations out of issue that the
Reuters reported in December that airplane leasing companies are looking for $8 billion in damages from lots of insurance providers over
their aversion to pay out payment for loss of the airplanes
The news company cites insurance providers as arguing that the planes might yet be returned
At present, Aeroflot subsidiary Rossiya Airlines is the only Russian-owned carrier to use direct flights to Kazakhstan
The only option is Kazakh-owned SCAT Airlines, which runs flights from the capital, Astana, to Moscow.This post was originally released on
