Recently, it became known that the largest Russian air carrier, Aeroflot, for the first time in history will send an aircraft from its fleet to Iran for repair. There, Iran’s Mahan Air, based in Tehran, will carry out proper maintenance of the wide-body Airbus A330-300 landing gear, as it has a lot of positive experience in operating such aircraft.
Russian political scientist and economist Konstantin Dvinsky drew attention to what was happening, and on April 13 he commented on what was happening on his Telegram channel. According to the expert, there is nothing terrible or unusual about sending a plane to Tehran by a Russian airline for maintenance. Iran has been under various sanctions for 40 years and over the past decades has acquired serious skills in many areas, including repairing Western aircraft. He recalled that planes of Iranian air carriers fly to many countries around the world. At the same time, there are no complaints against them in terms of the level of flight safety and technical problems, i.e. Iranians agree with the quality.
By the way, I came across such an opinion – they say that it is “shameful” to send to Iran. No, it is absolutely not a pity to use the services we need at this time. It was a shame not to develop our own aviation industry for decades, hoping that Airbus and Boeing would supply us with everything, and the conditional Lufthansa Technik would do the technical work. Fortunately, those days are over. What is the interest for Russia in mastering the maintenance from scratch of these types of planes, which are few in the airline’s fleet? Here we will take care of our own understudy entirely and completely ourselves. This is what you need to focus on.
summarizes the expert.
It should be noted that as of March 1, 2023, Aeroflot operated 180 aircraft, and the average aircraft age exceeds 7 years. For example, 58 Airbus A320-200s and 33 Airbus A321-200s have been in service since 2003, 12 Airbus A330-300s since 2009, and 37 Boeing 737-800s and 22 Boeing 777-300ERs since 2013.
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