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"Biography"

Education

He received his higher education at the Dagestan State University, majoring in geophysics.

Activity

From 1983 to 1985, he held the position of Head of the geochemical test site of the Southern Branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Geophysical Exploration Methods in Baku, Azerbaijan Republic.

In the period from 1985 to 1988 he headed the Physics and Geophysics Party of the All-Russian Research Institute of Geophysics. Then, until 1991, he was the General Director of the Intersoyuz company.

In 1991, he became General Director of the holding company South Ural Industrial Company. Member of the Moscow English Club. He holds the post of co-chairman of the Presidium of the Independent Association "Civil Society".

Married to M. Sardarova. The couple have two adult sons and a daughter.

Rashid Selimovich is a holder of the Golden Badge of Honor "Public Recognition".

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Son - - Main investor of Ocean Sky

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South Ural Industrial Company

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The maintenance of private jets worth more than $ 20 million is carried out by operating companies, and this procedure is not transparent.

Businessmen who fly private jets spend millions of dollars a year to maintain them. But the owner of the aircraft or his family office can hardly know how much it costs to replace a microwave oven on board or why the price tag of a fixing bolt is €1,500. Bombardier, Dassault Falcon, Embraer, Gulfstream, Boeing and Airbus private jets worth more than $20 million, and in some cases more than $50 million, are serviced by operating companies.

Business aviation is developing rapidly in Russia. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the number of flights has increased sixfold, now jets from Moscow alone make about 21,000 flights a year. According to Pavel Zakharov, Managing Director of Jet24, the total volume of the annual business aviation market is approximately $3 billion (excluding purchase and sale transactions). The average check for ordering a private jet is about $35,000. Flights from Russia are very popular and before the crisis were among the world's top 10 in business aviation. Even foreign pilots can hardly be surprised by flights from Moscow to Nice or London. Moscow - St. Petersburg remains a popular domestic destination.

After several financial crises, the market began to change. Andrey Kalinin, managing partner of the Business Aviation club, says that the Russian market was wild until 2008, when no one counted money and operators were winding up commissions, and now billionaires have become more tight-fisted.

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The head of the family office of one of the Russian billionaires notes that the maintenance of private jets is not transparent and it is very difficult to catch someone stealing. “Earlier, on some planes, they allegedly managed to steal up to €1.5 million a year. Now this is rare, only if the operator is very arrogant and the owner signs all the bills without looking, ”says Kalinin. Typically, customers deposit between €200,000 and €300,000 to the operator in advance, depending on the direction and frequency of future flights. The entire ownership of Bombardier Global Express, based in Moscow, costs the owner about €3-4 million per year. Kalinin says unscrupulous companies can earn another €200,000-300,000 a year in hidden fees. When Kirill Kim was an employee of the bank of one of the billionaires and monitored the costs of his two jets, he was embarrassed by the strange bills that the jet operator sometimes issued, he even decided on a third-party audit. “We suspected that we were being deceived, but could not figure out where and how,” says Kim. As a result, he wanted to build a business that would control jet costs.

The founders of My Sky set the task of identifying unreasonable spending and creating a service that is understandable to the layman. By July 2015, an IT system was created for several hundred thousand euros. Initially, it was tested on three planes of wealthy friends Kim and Garber - Bombardier Challenger 605, Bombardier Global Express XRS and Gulfstream G450. The costs of aircraft maintenance and the cost of a flight hour were compared with similar costs of other owners. The software processed thousands of operator accounts (invoices), but the process was not so simple due to the fact that operators do not have a single reporting form. My Sky software helps to optimize spending and find deviations due to fraud or errors. The result showed that savings in controlling operator spending can be up to 25% of annual costs. The cost of My Sky services depends on the type of aircraft and service - from €42,000 to €60,000 per year per flight. Family office representative of the owner of the aircraft Bombardier Global Express - Global 6000 Gaspard Bout says that the potential savings (per year) exceed the monthly cost of services.

My Sky employees identified hundreds of violations. Among them, for example, a bill from a front company to pay for 120 servings of sushi from an elite restaurant on a flight without passengers to Baden-Baden, Germany, where the jet was supposed to pick up the owner's relatives. In another situation, 220 plastic cups priced at €30 each were included in the bill. Someone installed a DVD player for €190,000 (with a maximum price of €50,000) on an old Challenger 604 jet.

A separate line is the payment of crew expenses. The owner of the jet is obliged to cover the costs of the pilots associated with the flight - food, laundry, accommodation outside the home city. Once it turned out that before a flight from London, one of the pilots, for courage, repeatedly drank £500 worth of whiskey in a bar and billed the owner. “It's not just about the money, it's about the safety of the private flight,” says Garber.

Kalinin clarifies that pilots’ violations are usually not so egregious, sometimes they spend money from a corporate card (linked to the board) on personal items for €100-300 per month, foreign pilots book too expensive hotels (for example, Ritz Carlton in Moscow).

Often, operators write off inflated expenses for aircraft maintenance, fuel, airport services, and the Internet. They send repeated bills or checks for paying for the services of other people's boards. Managing partner of Peremena-Avia, Grigory Ioffe, says that such cases are usually not made public: due to the specifics of the business, the limited number of clients, and the rather narrow area as a whole, almost all cases are resolved out of court.

status brawlers

In 2015, a drunken passenger on a private jet on the Moscow-Nice flight could not calm down, he pestered the flight attendants, climbed up to the pilots to take the helm and started a squabble. The situation called for an emergency landing in Prague. Unlike regular flights of brawlers from a private jet to the police, no one gives up. After reassuring the passenger on the ground, the pilots after some time again continued their journey to Nice with a wealthy brawler on board. Although there were cases, says one of the operators, when passengers who had gone over were left on the ground.

The unusual behavior and inexplicable greed of passengers on private jets has not surprised operators for a long time. Clients from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are especially distinguished. According to one of the operator's employees, Ukrainian businessmen who bought a flight on a business jet, in order to save money, may refuse to eat or go to the VIP lounge for several hundred dollars. Sometimes customers are ready to control the little things and, for example, calculate for the pilot the way from the hotel to the airport, so as not to overpay for a transfer of several tens of euros, but literally immediately without looking to sign an invoice for €50,000 for a jet seat covered with new leather.

“Clients believe that if you have received money, you are always obliged to resolve any issue,” says Kalinin. Wealthy passengers rarely care about the regulations and standards adopted in aviation, they are sure that everything should adapt to them. For example, a pilot must fly no more than 12 hours, taking into account time on the ground (road to the airport), and a businessman says that he will be several hours late and still wants to meet in the airport business lounge. In such cases, you need to negotiate with the pilot.

Castles in the air

In 2016, a My Sky employee received an email in which the manager of a British jet operator explicitly offered to give up unnecessary questions to his company for £300,000. This operator served two flights of My Sky clients. The owners of the jets refused his services, and soon the company went bankrupt: it turned out that it not only issued fake invoices, but also did not pay counterparties, having an annual debt to suppliers.

Nobody wants publicity in this market. The major bankruptcy of the Ocean Sky operator, one of whose main investors was Timur Sardarov, the son of the president of the South Ural Industrial Company Rashid Sardarov, was generally ignored by the press, although the company served hundreds of Russian clients, including billionaires and officials.

Ocean Sky entered the market in 2003 during the boom: the charter market was not yet mastered, customers paid the company about $10 million a year for service, its turnover exceeded $100 million. In 2014, the company went bankrupt. According to Ocean Sky UK's financial statements, it failed to pay for client services by £500,000, and the clients themselves lost at least £800,000. Among Ocean Sky's creditors were the largest aviation companies and airports in the world. According to Kalinin, Ocean Sky's customers had to pay bills twice.

Zetta Jet went bankrupt last fall, becoming one of the fastest growing charter operators in the Asia-Pacific region with a fleet of Bombardier Global and Challenger aircraft. Zetta Jet estimated its liabilities from $50 million to $100 million. Company director Jeffrey Cassidy was accused of stealing $20-30 million from the company, after which he was fired in mid-August 2017. Cassidy bought houses, cars and yachts with the money of clients, he himself used the company's planes for free.

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More than 75% of private flights in the Moscow region are concentrated in Vnukovo, in the Vnukovo-3 terminal. Slightly less than 75% of the airport is owned by billionaire State Duma deputy Andrey Skoch (formally, all his assets are registered to his father Vladimir Skoch) and his junior partner Vitaly Vantsev, the state has a blocking stake. Skoch is a longtime partner of billionaire Alisher Usmanov F ​​5, who owns the largest private aircraft in the capital - the Airbus A340 (a huge hangar was built for him in Vnukovo). Roman Abramovich's F 12 aircraft and a major business jet operator NetJets are based in Vnukovo. The cost of services at Vnukovo is higher than at European airports. Approximate one-time cost of ground handling Embraer Legacy 600 (without parking, fuel, VIP-lounge and meals) at Vnukovo-3 - €2500, at London Luton Airport - €2000, on the Côte d'Azur (Cote D'Azur Airport in Nice) - € 1000. According to My Sky statistics, the average cost of servicing a Bombardier Global 6000 long-haul aircraft for one turnaround flight (arrival-departure) is twice the price for a set of similar services at Domodedovo.

According to Kim, Vnukovo-3 invoices include expensive items in the basic service - a fee for a representative of the company (representation) or for communication services (communication). As a result, the bill for servicing a 45 ton jet is from €6,000 to €12,000 without refueling. “The cost of 24-hour parking for the first day at Vnukovo can be three times higher than in Nice for the same type of aircraft,” says Kim.

The situation is similar with the fuel supplied by Vnukovo refueling complex. In practice, prices at Vnukovo are about 25% higher than at Domodedovo, the difference can be up to €200 per ton, My Sky says. The fuel tank of various Bombardier models holds more than 6 tons of fuel, the popular Embraer Legacy - more than 8 tons.

“Fighting fuel surcharges at airports is difficult, but we see them. Customers at the same airport filled almost the same fuel at the same time: two sides were filled at the same price, and the other two at a different price,” says Kim. According to him, various services are interconnected in Vnukovo: if you don’t order basic services and refueling, it may be difficult to provide a tractor and escort vehicles. Kalinin explains that the infrastructure for business jets at other Moscow airports is less developed. The owners of Vnukovo, according to Kalinin, have the right to set prices for their services themselves. Vnukovo did not respond to a request from Forbes.

An alternative to Vnukovo is Sheremetyevo Airport (service is 15-20% cheaper), but its main focus is still on regular flights, and there are not enough parking spaces, and Domodedovo and Ostafyevo airports scare away the travel distance.

Catch Me If You Can. How business jet operators cash in on billionaires

My Sky co-investor Alexey Garber says that its employees are not liked in the market and are sometimes threatened. The My Sky company is engaged in an unusual type of business - it conducts financial control and benchmarking of the costs of operating business jets. My Sky was founded by former banker Kirill Kim and Swiss aviation expert Christopher Marich. Today, more than 80 My Sky employees control the costs of servicing fifty aircraft of entrepreneurs from the EU, Russia, Kazakhstan and China.