[conspire] Aeroflot Leaving Miami and the Future of Russian Aviation

[paulz at ieee.org]

 Putin reportedly gave  Russian aviation permission to continue to fly, but there will certainly be long term consequences as genuine spare parts are not available and the owners of the leased planes will have a long memory of contracts not being honored.  
This could echo for many years after the invasion of Ukraine has ended.


    On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 03:00:21 PM PST, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:  
 
 Aeroflot took their last flight out of the US on 2/28 and, with airspace closing to Russian planes everywhere, took a wee bit of a detour:

https://www.airlive.net/aeroflot-flight-su111-violated-canadas-airspace/

Blue's the original flight plan; green is as flown (where it differs from the plan).

You can see many planes with the much more common crossing south of Iceland here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/t3eetx/aeroflot_111_miami_to_moscow_violated_canadian/

We've flown far enough north that we've seen both Greenland and Iceland out the window, but I've never seen *that* much of Greenland. It's pretty clear they were trying to get far enough north to avoid all the banned airspaces, and there simply wasn't a way to do that *and* head northward without violating Canadian airspace.

(I suspect the Canadian complaint is mere formality; the flight plan would already have been filed with them.)

Note that they had to get that far north in case, as it happened, Norwegian, Swedish, and/or Finnish air space closed to them. Thus, at the end, they flew around the Nordic countries.

Interesting analysis on the future of Russian aviation from a pilot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrgI4gB5W2o

* 2/3 of their planes are leased; 50% for Aeroflot (whoops) and they have 30 days to return them
* Aeroflot's repair facility is in Germany (whoops)
* They can't buy repair parts (because Swift and because of sanctions)

-- 
  Deirdre Saoirse Moen
  deirdre at deirdre.net

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