2022 年 6 月 1 日 03:55 UTC

作者：埃琳娜·戈尔根

中国禁止100 架在欧洲注册的空客和波音飞机进入中国领空。据《航空杂志》报道，中国现在要求所有航空公司提供更新的电子档案和投资组合，以包括有关飞机、航空公司所有者和地勤合同的详细信息。

虽然这适用于所有航空公司，没有歧视因素，但它会影响俄罗斯拥有的航空公司。最难的是，因为他们驾驶的飞机无法提供上述文件。俄罗斯航空公司必须证明这些飞机没有在其他国家注册，而且他们也无法这样做——因为这些飞机仍然是在欧洲出租人那里注册的。

今年 3 月，空中客车公司和波音公司停止在俄罗斯提供零部件和维修，以及欧洲出租人要求归还他们的飞机，总统弗拉基米尔普京签署了一项新法律，规定俄罗斯可以保留所有这些他们租用的飞机。

China Closes Airspace to Russian-Owned Aircraft, but Only to Stolen Planes

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by Elena Gorgan

The world is getting smaller for Russia: in the latest blow to the Russian aviation, China has closed its airspace to Russian-flagged aircraft that can’t provide updated documentation on registration and ownership. That’s more than half the current Russian aircraft fleet.

Russian aviation industry takes another hit as China closes its airspace to Russian-owned aircraft whose legal status can't be confirmed

In March this year, in response to then-launched sanctions that prompted Airbus and Boeing to stop offering parts and maintenance in Russia, and European lessors to ask for their airplanes back, President Vladimir Putin signed a new law that said Russia could keep all those planes they had on lease. A rough estimate noted that this meant over 100 planes worth more than $10 billion, which Russia practically “stole” by refusing to return them when asked to. The number of Western-sourced aircraft could be as high as 700, more than half the current Russian fleet.

A short while later, Russia changed its aviation rules to remove various safety regulations related to maintenance and certification – a must, considering it no longer benefited from service and maintenance from the makers, Boeing and Airbus. It also instantly re-registered all those airplanes, so that they were now Russian.

All those airplanes are now banned from Chinese airspace. The infamously neutral (*but technically obviously partial) China is now requesting all airlines to provide updated electronic dossiers and portfolios to include details about the aircraft, owners of airlines, and ground handling contracts, Airways Magazine reports.

While this applies to all airlines without discrimination, it impacts Russian-owned ones the hardest, because they’re flying stolen aircraft for which they can’t provide said documentation. As per the publication, Russian airlines would have to prove that their aircraft are not registered in other countries, and they can’t do that – because the planes are still registered to the European lessors they stole them from.

Technically, China is banning Russian aircraft from its airspace, but the updated regulations “affect equipment whose legal status has not been confirmed following sanctions” and which have been re-registered in Russia, the outlet points out. In short, aircraft stolen from European lessors, which Putin decided he could keep.

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