Irkut Corporation will deliver MS-21 aircraft with 180 seats instead of 150 seats first, RIA Novosti reports. The president of Irkut Corporation, Alexey Fedorov, has declared the fact during the Baikal economic forum.

"We have changed the order of liners delivery after the negotiations with airlines. First of all, we will start the deliveries of MS-21-300s with 180 seats and then we will start the deliveries of MS-21-200s and later - MS-21-400s. 70-80% of orders are related to 180-seated version. This aircraft is especially attractive for low-cost carriers", - Fedorov explained.

According to him, Irkut has firm contracts on 128 liners and the business-plan assumes the assembly of more than 1000 liners.

"The project is going on in accordance with a plan, the delivery of components to the Irkutsk plant has been started", - Fedorov said.