According to the Russian news outlet, Kommersant , Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has sacked Andrey Boginsky, CEO of PJSC Yakovlev , and Konstantin Timofeev, Managing Director of JSC Tupolev . They have been removed for the "failure of the civil aviation program," seemingly suggesting that Russia's plan to produce 1,000 passenger aircraft by 2030 indigenously is not going to plan . Russia sacks heads of Yakovlev and Tupolev The leaders of Yakovlev and Tupolev have been removed by order of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (the premiership is a post that President Putin once held for four years—although he moved effective power to the post from the presidency during his tenure).
UAC is the publicly owned, consolidated Russian aerospace and defense company formed in 2006 by merging Ilyushin, Irkut, Mikoyan, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev. According to Kommersant's reporting , Yakovlev CEO Boginsky was fired for " the failure of the civil aviation program. " Kommersant also states that there are sources in the industry saying his sacking was not from the upper echelons of the Russian government.
Russian airliners include the Ilyushin Il-96, Yakovlev/Irkut MC-21 , Sukhoi Superjet 100, and the Tupolev Tu-214. Recently, the Russian airline S7 Airlines contracted to purchase 100 Tu-214s. Meanwhile, the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot has reportedly lost interest in the SuperJet and is instead interested in purchasing MC-21s.
Domestic Russian commercial jets are being delay.