Adjusting to a New Normal Without Russia
Russia sanction effects on business aviation have been absorbed by growth elsewhere in the industry but have created a series of complexities.
Vnukovo FBO in Moscow
Vnukovo FBO in Moscow during better days when business jet travel to Russia was relatively free of constraints.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent, ongoing sanctions on the country—designed to weaken President Vladimir Putin’s war economy and his cabal of influential oligarchs—has almost completely sealed off Russian aviation, both business and commercial.

This previously steady market has been devastated, with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) stopping the sale and supply of aircraft and components. The sanctions have made it impossible to trade, service, and support an aircraft with links to a Russian entity anywhere in the world.