{"id":260949,"date":"2025-08-03T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/russia-latest-plan-new-aircraft-western-sanctions-africa-largest-airline\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:00:18","slug":"russias-latest-plan-to-source-new-aircraft-amid-western-sanctions-involves-africas-largest-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260949","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Latest Plan To Source New Aircraft Amid Western Sanctions Involves Africa&#8217;s Largest Airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia wants new planes\u2014a perfectly normal requirement for a country with a thirst for air travel both domestically and globally. Hampered by Western sanctions, Russian airlines are no longer able to access new <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> aircraft, nor spare parts to maintain their existing fleets. This tricky situation has driven several innovative solutions, including the manufacturing of unapproved spare parts locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; modern fleet is of much interest to Russia amid heavy Western sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,396,1373,1356,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-aircraft","category-ethiopia","category-ethiopian-airlines","category-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260950,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260949\/revisions\/260950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}