11/08/2019 16:49

Buy domestic

[IMG=18463-4064] This news was discovered on the web-site of the Ministry, moreover import duties are expected to rise by up to 30%. At present, customs duty on import planes is uniform and is equal to 20%, with 18% of VAT. As a BANKO correspondent discovered even if such innovation is introduced, it will not concern all air companies, who intend to buy foreign planes. For example, 'Ural Airways' plan to acquire by leasing planes manufactures abroad not older than 5 years. The press-service of the Air companies explained that this decision was reached in the result of the serious analysis of technical characteristics of various plane models depending on the amount of hours spent airborne. However, the majority of carrier believes that imported second-hand planes are able to serve for a long time, without serious problems. Therefore, Russian air companies are interested in acquiring planes with a longer lifetime than 7 years specified by Minpromenergo. Airline companies interested in such planes (for example, 'Transaero' and 'KD avia' use them) are yet struggling to accurately predict how the Minister's initiative can influence the volumes of foreign transport. 'Everything depends on the market offers and the conditions', said Sergey Bykhal, PR director of 'Transaero'. - Yet the choice is not that wide: purchasing of used Russian planes is not that attractive as its foreign counterpart is of a better quality. As for the acquisition of new Russian planes, we should compare their leasing rate and the import duties to see which one is more profitable. Experts believe that Minpromenergo's intentions to increase the duty to make airline companies interested in acquiring new Russian planes makes no sense. Carriers are not against buying new domestic planes, yet they see a problem in the fact that their production lags behind their demand. The difference between supply and demand is obvious judging from the data of Rosprom: during past two years the amount of planes acquired that were assembled in Russia was just 10, which is three times less than imported planes purchased during this period.