Boeing helped run the Russian economy. Can you return?

Hear President Vladimir F. Putin told her, the Russian economy flourished despite Western sanctions, to become more self -acquisition and redirect towards new markets.

But there is one company that Russian officials do not hide from losing: Boeing.

Air giant aircraft play an important role in the Russian economy, and link their distant cities. Even the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Boeing sold and preserved aircraft in Russia and manages a major design center there. It also bought a lot of titanium, a major material for modern aircraft, from Russia.

While President Trump continues a great rapprochement with Moscow, the company appeared as an early test if American companies were that He fled from Russia Early war will return.

Boeing did not say anything in public places about whether he was thinking about returning, and he refused to comment on this article. But the obstacles are great.

Mr. Trump has so far been in the place of US sanctions on Russian aviation, giving him influence with Mr. Putin as he continues negotiations to end the war. There are widespread doubts in the American aviation circles about the commercial sense of Boeing’s return to Russia, a reflection of the tremendous damage achieved by three years of war in the place of the country in the world of American companies.

“If the re -introduction of Russia and the drinking of bleaching are abandoned,” said Richard Apollavia, air space counselor.

For the largest part, the Russian economy surprised the observers outside its ability Resistance to penalties and Axis away from the West. Chinese cars replaced Western things. The Russian train factories that worked with the German company Siemens continued production on its own. The Russian payment system filled the gap left by Visa and MasterCard.

And Mr. Putin has to request He said in 2023, he said in 2023, that it was a similar shift in flying: a civilian plane in the country, in 2023, which needed to fill the gap left by the makers of the Western plane that withdrew from Russia. Russia poured billions of dollars to renew the aviation industry in the Soviet era, but experts do not expect the huge production of Russian aircraft completely before 2030.

The Russian trade fleet still depends on more than 450 Boeing aircraft and its European rival, Airbus. These aircraft – the lifestyle of the nation that extends to 11 time areas – represents more than half of the passenger planes used in Russia today, according to the airline data.

The European Union, where there is aerbus, is strongly opposed to any rapprochement with Russia. Airbus also suspended its operations in Russia in 2022, although it still buys some titanium there. A spokeswoman for the company said she had other sources of metal and was always looking to diversify her supply chain to become more flexible.

During its distortion, the Russian tankers dismantled some of its fleet to spare parts and restore the aircraft designed by the Soviet football. The country’s leading private airline, S7, is based on its latest aircraft in Airbus because it has not been able to serve its engines, which is from Pratt & Whitney, an American company. Aeroflot, the main carrier, has turned into Iran to serve its broad aircraft.

After more than three years of sanctions, the situation appears increasingly unstable. Reforms were made without overseeing the aircraft manufacturers, and some components were at least It was smuggled to the country.

Andrei said. Karamearco, who analyzes Russian aviation at the Upper Economy School in Moscow, has faced a special challenge in the service of long aircraft. Russia’s uneducated trips for eight hours across the country can become something of the past.

“Everyone is interested in foreign suppliers who return to Russia within two to three years.”

As a result, while the total Kremlin message is that Russia is working well without Western companies, officials admit that Russian aviation is not.

Sergey F. said. Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, on Friday that Russia asked the Trump administration to lift the sanctions on Aeroflot as part of “return to normal” in the relationship between the United States of Russia.

Anton Alejhanov, Minister of Commerce, He said This month “it will be important” for the United States to make $ 500 million of reserve aircraft parts that Russia had bought before the sanctions. Dennis Mantorov, First Russian Deputy Prime Minister, He said In February, if Boeing is “ready to return, we are ready to look at it.”

In an interview on the sidelines of a conference in New Delhi last month, Vyacheslav Nikonov volunteered that he wanted to see Boeing to Russia because the country needs spare parts and because “renewing the fleet of aircraft will be interesting.”

Main American companies such as HoneyWell and GE sell main aircraft spare parts. None of them said that he was considering returning to Russia.

Analysts say, even if Boeing returns, the relationship will not be depth as it was before the invasion – an era in which Boeing was running a training campus in flying in Moscow and its executives. Meet with Mr. Putin.

Boeing has a lot of business without Russia, which represents a small share of the global market for spare parts and aircraft. The company has more than 5500 distinguished demands for commercial aircraft and is working hard to stimulate production to more than a few dozen aircraft per month.

“There is nothing about the industry now restricted,” said Mr. Apollavia, Air Space Adviser, the managing director of the fixed consultant Aerodynamic Consulting Company. “The problem is on the show side. It has been for five years and it will be for another five years.”

Moreover, Russia rocked the belief of the global aviation industry by seizing hundreds of rented aircraft in its fleet after imposing sanctions in 2022. It forced the owners of foreign aircraft to record the losses of billions of dollars, and the validity of the aircraft services records were suspicious.

“These aircraft will ever get a stain against them,” said Queen Brasi, founder and CEO of ACI Aviation Consulting, which provides services including aircraft assessments. “What was done during the period that was operated and preserved in Russia? No one knows.”

However, Russia has some benefits to present it. Before the invasion of 2022, the largest supplier of Titanium for commercial aircraft was in Boeing. The metal makes up about 15 percent of the structural weight of 787 Dreamliner, according to Mr. Apologa.

But Boeing has diversified its sources, the analysts, they have no urgent need for Russian Titanium.

Russia appears to be interested in a broader deal that would lift the US -imposed sanctions imposed by the United States. “The active work is underway” to restore direct flights between Russia and the United States.

A spokesman for his main counterpart to Mr. Dimitriev, Steve Whittkov, refused to comment on their talks, which has not yet made progress in reset He arrived in Russia on Friday For another round of negotiations. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio told the correspondents after Mr. Dimitriev’s visit that he had not “heard anything about direct flights” that are restored to Russia.

Restore flights are likely to reopen their airspace on each other’s aircraft. This may benefit US Airlines, which must fly around Russia on many roads to Asia, as well as airlines from Europe, South Korea and Japan, which has also been banned from Russian airspace.

Alexander A. Denkin, head of the Institute of World Economics and International Relations in Moscow: “It will be a competitive advantage compared to European airlines and all other airlines.”

Mr. Dynkin added that rebuilding relations with Boeing will be important due to the continuation of the difficult line in Europe against rebuilding relations with Russia.

“No one talks to when it comes to Airbus,” said Mr. Delinkin, who advises the Russian Foreign Ministry. “But we can talk to Boeing.”

Edward Wong It contributed to the reports from Washington, and Michael Crowley From Brussels.