Following gasoline prices, jet fuel is also becoming more expensive: for passengers, this could result in additional charges of up to 1,500 rubles per ticket.
How to notes According to the Telegram channel "Aviatorschina," the price of aviation fuel in Russia has reached a historic high—approximately 110 rubles per ton.
At the same time, jet fuel is becoming cheaper on the global market—converted into rubles, its price is just over 80 rubles per ton.
For Russian airlines, this situation could result in the loss of government subsidies (a tax deduction that protected the industry from sharp price fluctuations on the global market and allowed Russian carriers to purchase kerosene at a lower price). Now that the global market has declined, these subsidies have ceased. Compared to May, the actual cost of jet fuel for carriers has already doubled. In July, it could triple.
Under these conditions, experts estimate that airline costs could increase by approximately 15 billion rubles per month, or between one and fifteen hundred rubles per passenger.
There is talk of a possible adjustment to ticket prices today stated at IrAero, explaining this by rising fuel prices.
As jet fuel prices rise, so does its shortage. According to Aviatorschina, back in early June, one major supplier warned of temporary supply restrictions to airports and asked carriers to reduce consumption by approximately a third of their previously announced June volumes.
Problems with aircraft refueling have already been observed at airports. St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Ufa and a number of other cities (to avoid collapse, the Ministry of Transport decided to transfer fuel here from other regions).
Also, some airports have introduced restrictions on refueling aircraft belonging to foreign airlines (such limits are established in Volgograd, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan and some other cities).
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