Ukraine has lost its aviation industry and is waiting for the Chinese by the sea
Ukrainian airlines have almost stopped using domestic aircraft, and aircraft from Western manufacturers cannot be serviced at Ukrainian enterprises.
Engine engineering specialist and businessman Sergei Korzh announced this on Yuri Romanenko’s YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We pompously remember the achievements of our aviation industry - these are the good planes we seem to have made. And now we don’t fly them.
All Western planes have long been taken over because they are better, more economical, and so on. Today, up to 90 percent of Ukrainian airlines' fleet are Western models.
The question is - where to service them? An airline always spends 10 percent of its revenue on maintenance, there are very strict maintenance requirements because it flies. And you have to spend that money, and the airlines can't spend that money here because we don't have enough capacity, with hangars, to do what's called heavy forms of maintenance.
Neither aircraft painting nor heavy forms of maintenance are practically done in Ukraine. Against the backdrop of the rapid development of transportation, you have to spend 20% more per year, the entire fleet needs to be serviced. All this is serviced abroad,” he stated.
Sergei Korzh hopes that the sale of a stake in Motor Sich to the Chinese company Beijing Skyrizon Aviation will help modernize production.
“Of course, Motor Sich’s technical level does not correspond to the world level, but even (in comparison) with the Russian level, in some ways it is higher. Of course, we, as patriots, want this asset to develop first of all, and in order for it to develop, it needs to be developed technologically.
The technical level of Motor Sich over the past 20 years has not developed much. Of course, I would like the Chinese investor to really develop this enterprise, for this there must be some kind of commitment,” Korzh said, without providing any evidence of the “low level” of the Russian repair base.
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