The International Airport of Cheboksary company (MACh LLC) prolonged the fuel and lubricant laboratory Certificate of Conformity for quality control of the aviation fuels, lubricants and special fluids refueled by the company to aircrafts in the airport of Cheboksary. The inspection was held in October 2019 within the Voluntary Certification System of the civil aviation facilities. The Certificate issued on 28.10.2019 confirms that works executed by the laboratory on quality control at all stages of jet fuel supplies to aircrafts fully conform to the Federal Aviation Regulations provisions requirements.

The quality control laboratory in the airport of Cheboksary is one of 14 operating in the refueling complexes of Aerofuels network.

All of them are furnished with up-to-date equipment, pass regular inspections within the Voluntary Certification System of the civil aviation facilities and always confirm a high level of complex services in quality control of TC-1, PT, JetA-1 aviation fuels and special fluids.

The International Airport of Cheboksary company (MACh LLC) has been a member of Aerofuels Group of Companies since 2016.

The airport of Cheboksary is a federal international airport. Besides regular flights it operates special purpose flights (rotation based) to the towns of the northern regions.

One of the tasks put by President Vladimir Putin for the Government based on the State Council meeting of 04.09.2019 is provision of compensation of additional fuels costs suffered by aviation lines in 2018. As stated in the List of President’s Instructions, funds for that shall be allocated from the reserve fund before the 01st of November.

The jet kero price growth which in 2018 was more than 40% is one of the main factors impacting on work efficiency in this field of industry and directly influencing the air travel tariffs growth and aviation lines costs increase.

This November the next stage of works on refueling complexes (TZK) of Aerofuels network upgrading will be completed.

During the year in the airports of Saint Petersburg (Pulkovo), Irkutsk, Izhevsk, Kirov, Ulan-Ude, Ufa and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk large-scale works on fuel facilities re-equipping, including fuel metering system process equipment replacement, new refuelers delivery and up-to-date laboratory devices installation, have been carried out. Total amount of investments in 2019 made 275 million rubles.

Most part of the executed works is directly associated with updating and improvement of aviation security system, i.e. the whole complex of measures and resources aiming for provision of a stable and safe work of TZK, airports and air carriers. Aerofuels Group of Companies always pays a special attention to improvement of transport safety level at their enterprises and invests significant funds for that.