INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian airlines have continued to import spare parts for Western aircraft despite sanctions designed to cut off the flow of key equipment,
Reutersreported Wednesday, citing customs data.Ural Airlines, Norwdind Airlines, S7, Aeroflot and others have imported $1.2 billion worth of
likely higher as Reuters said its calculations only accounted for direct shipments to Russian airlines and their maintenance units
Emirates, Moldova, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Reuters said.The essential spare parts include devices made by U.S
passenger planes in their fleets.The country's airline sector was one of the first to be affected by Western sanctions and the economic
faced problems with aircraft maintenance after being cut off from supplies of spare parts and software updates, but Reuter's report suggests
that at least some of these issues have been resolved or mitigated.The U.S
