Russians are a bit afraid of home-made aircraft, but will risk for a discount
Russian travelers consider locally madeaircraft less safe and prefer flying by Boeings and Airbuses if they have a choice.
That's what was revealed by a polling carried out among 2145 Russian users of a
major online flight search engine Kayak.
The majority of pollees (45%) ranked Boeing
as the most reliable aircraft, and almost the same number (43%) gave their voices
to Airbus. About 6% named Tupolev, and less than 1% went for Yak. Surprisingly enough,
5% of respondents believe that the safest airplanes are made by Ilyushin, whose
most wide-spread machine (IL-86) has been out of production and service for some
years now.
As it turns out, even despite the Russians'
high level of trust in foreign-made aircraft, over 42% of the pollees are ready
to board a plane they believe to be more dangerous in return for a discount. 12%
of them don't mind taking the risk to save as little as €25, while 83% would only
agree to do so if at least €75 is taken off their airfare.