Aeroflot – Russian Airlines has put the second Sukhoi SuperJet 100 into operation. It has been named after the famous pilot of Aeroflot Dmitry Ezerskiy. The aircraft named after D.Ezerskiy will perform its first commercial flight on August 27th on route Moscow-St. Petersburg-Moscow, the airline reports. AEX.ru
Sukhoi SuperJet 100 (serial number 95010) has been delivered to Aeroflot in accordance with the contract with VEB-Leasing on financial leasing of the aircraft. The delivered aircraft is intended for transportation of 87 passengers in a comfortable two-class cabin (12 seats in the business-class and 75 – in the economy class). The maximum range is 2,300 km.
Aeroflot has ordered 30 SSJ100s. In addition, it plans to acquire ten more. The first SSJ 100 of Aeroflot has been put into operation on June 16th. It performs regular flights from Sheremetyevo to St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Ufa. Astrakhan will be added to this list of cities since September 2nd.
«Aeroflot was the first Russian airline to operate SSJ100, - зsaid CEO of Aeroflot, Vitaly Savelyev. – They are becoming an important part of our fleet, one of the Europe’s youngest and advanced fleets. The doubtless leadership in domestic air lines – one of the main clauses of our strategy of building a global network company. The maintenance of this leadership is an important objective of our short-haul SSJ100 aircraft, which are demonstrating a great potential. The first SuperJet has already performed flights on our domestic routes. In future these vehicles will be operated on international destinations».
«We are grateful to our launch customer – Aeroflot – for an opportunity to confirm good operational capabilities of SSJ100 during intense operation and we are glad that the passengers and airline’s personnel like our liner, - said the president of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, Vladimir Prisyazhnuk. – We will continue providing a comprehensive support to Aeroflot on the initial operation stage and we will also provide a quality post-sales support. We hope our SSJ100 will become a perfect instrument for development of the airline’s regional network».