The son of the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov, Alexei Siluanov, headed a new structural unit of Aeroflot – the Department of Regional Development. This is stated in the letter of the air carrier to its employees.
The letter says that the department was created to “strengthen the work on the development of regional transportation, coordinate the development of Aeroflot’s regional hubs, as well as the need to establish systemic interaction with business, industry and expert organizations in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.”
The airline’s mailing list also clarified that Aleksey Antonovich Siluanov graduated from the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, is a candidate of economic sciences. He has worked in the aviation industry for nine years, and at Aeroflot for more than seven years. He was appointed to a new position on January 9.
Vedomosti sent a request to Aeroflot and Siluanov’s press secretary.
The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov was asked to comment on the new appointment today. At the briefing, he was asked if there is a conflict of interest in this case against the background of the company receiving subsidies from the state.
“To be honest, I don’t have information whether this is the son of Anton Siluanov. This is more of a corporate issue. But the fact is that this is a separate company, Aeroflot, it is not an organization subordinate to the Ministry of Finance. Therefore, no matter who it is, there is no conflict of interest,” the Kremlin spokesman replied.
As Vedomosti wrote earlier, by 2030 Aeroflot Group will open three new regional bases in addition to existing hubs in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk. As expected, in 2022-2023. bases will be put into operation in the south of Russia (Sochi, Minvody) and in the Far East (Khabarovsk, Vladivostok), and in 2025-2026. – base in the Volga region or in the Urals. As a result, the passenger traffic of these regional bases, excluding flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg, should reach 7 million passengers in 2030.
At the end of 2022, the total traffic volume of Aeroflot Group airlines (including Aeroflot, Rossiya, Pobeda) amounted to 40.7 million people, which is 5.1 million less than a year earlier. At the end of 2023, Aeroflot intends to increase the group’s passenger traffic to 43.5 million passengers.
