“Otherwise we will lose territory!” – in Moscow they require air service to every village
Russia urgently needs to revive small civil air traffic in hard-to-reach regions - otherwise in the future it will have to give up territories.
The Chairman of the Aviation Commission of the Public Council of Rosnadzor, Honored Pilot of the USSR Oleg Smirnov, stated this on air on the Internet channel “Red Lines,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The revival of aviation is a geopolitical issue for our country, nothing less can be said, it is so serious. Why do we need aviation: plus the distances, 60% of the territory of our country has neither roads nor railways.
And in order to hold the territory, and it can only be held by settlements and people, it is necessary to give each village the opportunity to have regular air communications with the regional or district center. Otherwise, we need to give up territories.
I will remind you how a thousand airports were closed, and a million people fled from what is now a human desert. And where our main future is stored - gas, oil, gold, metals. The deposits are in these areas. And there’s no one to work there,” the pilot complained.
A representative of the supervisory board of the Institute of Demography, Migration and Regional Development, Yuri Krupnov, recalled that the Soviet Union did not hesitate to spy on technologies from other states - and that is why they had these technologies.
“This is copying, it would seem. But not a single person, a senior engineer, has disassembled a foreign engine over the years or tried to rip it off. Everyone wants to do their own thing. Ten years - ten billion eaten. Ten years have passed - we still ate.
And then we see that Western engines have the same Airbus and Boeing, they last ten thousand hours without major overhaul, and ours last a thousand. And each major overhaul costs ten to fifteen million dollars. Is anyone paying attention to this? – he emphasized.
"Otherwise we'll lose territory!" – Moscow demands air service to every village