Utair transfers all planes to Russian registry

The Russian airline Utair has transferred all 50 planes to the Russian state registry of civil aircraft.

Report informs citing Kommersant that about 180 planes were transferred to the Russian registry of planes in a month, including planes of Aeroflot, Pobeda, Utair, Rossiya, and Izhavia airlines. Prior to that, it contained about 70 planes.

"The airline transferred 50 planes to the domestic registry, which operates flights on the Utair route network both domestically and abroad," the company said in a statement.

Today, President Vladimir Putin signed a law on measures to support civil aviation, which allows registering the right to foreign planes leased by domestic companies. In addition, the planes will be issued Russian certificates of airworthiness.

On February 26, as part of a package of sanctions, the EU banned the supply, sale, leasing, maintenance, and insurance of planes in Russia. In response, the Federal Air Transport Agency recommended that Russian airlines suspend all international flights amid mass arrests of planes abroad. Aeroflot, Pobeda, and S7 Airlines have already listened to the recommendation.