The measure is set out in a conclusion by the State Duma budget and tax committee on the draft federal budget for 2027–2029, which Interfax reported on. The fee is being drafted on the instructions of Vladimir Putin.
According to the committee's conclusion, the levy is meant to "compensate the cost of leasing and operation" of 258 aircraft of the MS-21, Tu-214, SJ-100 and Il-114-300 types. Their delivery is provided for under the Comprehensive Programme for Expanding Aircraft Production.
In September, Interfax sources in the aviation industry said airlines would begin adding the fee to ticket prices to support the operation of the SJ-100 and MS-21. The same sources cited a different rate — up to 700 rubles on domestic flights and up to 1,800 rubles on international ones — a financing model industry participants said they had agreed with the authorities.
The aviation industry development programme approved in 2023 envisaged that plants would build 40 new aircraft in 2024 and 80 in 2025, with airlines to receive more than 1,000 airliners by 2030. According to The Moscow Times, airlines have not received a single new aircraft in four years. Serial production of the MS-21 will begin only in 2027, Rostec head Sergei Chemezov said in May at a meeting with Putin. The timelines for the SSJ-100 and Il-114, which were initially due to fly in 2023–2024, have been pushed back to 2027.
The government has set aside 37.3 billion rubles for the state programme for the development of the aviation industry in the 2027 budget, 35% more than this year. In 2028 spending is to rise by another third, to 57.7 billion rubles, The Moscow Times writes.