Air transportation to small airports stopped in three Russian regions: Russia: Travel: Lenta.ru
In three Russian regions – the Altai region, the Tomsk region – air transportation on local routes has ceased. About it informs RBC.
The reason for this was the non-compliance of small airports with the new safety requirements. To meet the new regulations, the airport needed to install special fences with alarms in a year, organize access control and video surveillance, install communication systems, alert systems, collect and process information, provide the site with the Internet, recruit a staff of rapid response teams (control, inspection, security) , organize round-the-clock patrolling and inspection of the runway.
A representative of the Ministry of Transport told the publication that as of March 2021, out of more than 2.2 thousand sites, only 165 met the new requirements. Modernization of one landing site in accordance with the new requirements will cost from 13 to 50 million rubles.
In July, the Ministry of Transport of Russia decided to reduce the cost of building transport infrastructure in the period 2021-2030. The current strategy provides for spending in the amount of 45-54 trillion rubles, while the new document says only 29.3 trillion rubles. Thus, the amount proposed to spend on transport and roads will be cut by 1.5-1.8 times, if the project does not undergo significant changes. The source of funds is the federal budget, regional budgets and extra-budgetary sources. The share of the latter will depend on the structures of the projects and their economic parameters. The transport strategy of the Ministry of Transport is the main document for the development of the industry in Russia. The current version was adopted back in 2008. According to the department, the proposed document takes into account world practice and trends. Particular attention is paid to the digital transformation of transport.
In September 2020, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on the provision of subsidies from the federal budget to support airports in remote areas of the Far East and the Far North. “The funds will be received by seven state-owned enterprises that unite 73 local airports and 15 landing sites in the Far Eastern, Siberian and Northwestern Federal Districts. It is planned to allocate 4.5 billion rubles annually for these purposes, ”reads the explanatory note to the document. Financing will be carried out within the framework of the state program “Development of the transport system”.