Air carrier first officer reported an aircraft issue during cruise resulted in a diversion. First of...

Narrative:

While inflight from ZZZ to ZZZZ; we experienced an aircraft issue. Luckily the issue didn't require an emergency descent with an immediate landing. The captain and I quickly realized that we only had jeppesen terminal charts for destination and alternate airports as the company took away all jeppesen charts outside of the USA in the jeppesen FD app in the company tablet after covid-19 started in what we assume was to save money. This is a serious issue that could result in an aircraft accident in an emergency or non emergency if the flight crew is unable to land the aircraft at the selected airports in jeppesen before departure. We cannot make changes to the jeppesen selections enroute.the company needs to immediately restore jeppesen FD app terminal chart subscriptions to all countries we fly to on a regular basis; so that we have all available information for safety of flight. We shouldn't ever have to fully rely on a foreign ATC to get us down safely because we could lose communications and thus would be flying blind. Flying without the required charts may be a violation of FAA; ICAO and foreign countries we are flying into or required by an overflight permit. This is a huge safety issue that could cause loss of life and loss of equipment resulting in litigation that would be more costly than paying for the subscriptions.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier First Officer reported an aircraft issue during cruise resulted in a diversion. First Officer stated they did not have the correct charts onboard the aircraft due to possible cost saving measures by the airline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Narrative: While inflight from ZZZ to ZZZZ; we experienced an aircraft issue. Luckily the issue didn't require an emergency descent with an immediate landing. The Captain and I quickly realized that we only had Jeppesen terminal charts for destination and alternate airports as the company took away all Jeppesen charts outside of the USA in the Jeppesen FD app in the company tablet after COVID-19 started in what we assume was to save money. This is a serious issue that could result in an aircraft accident in an emergency or non emergency if the flight crew is unable to land the aircraft at the selected airports in Jeppesen before departure. We cannot make changes to the Jeppesen selections enroute.The company needs to immediately restore Jeppesen FD app terminal chart subscriptions to all countries we fly to on a regular basis; so that we have all available information for safety of flight. We shouldn't ever have to fully rely on a foreign ATC to get us down safely because we could lose communications and thus would be flying blind. Flying without the required charts may be a violation of FAA; ICAO and foreign countries we are flying into or required by an overflight permit. This is a HUGE safety issue that could cause loss of life and loss of equipment resulting in litigation that would be more costly than paying for the subscriptions.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1752555
Time
Date	202007
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZZ.ARTCC
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

Air carrier first officer reported an aircraft issue during cruise resulted in a diversion. First officer stated they did not have the correct charts onboard the aircraft due to possible cost saving measures by the airline during the covid-19 pandemic.