Aeroflot – Russian Airlines has acquired Airbus А330-300. The aircraft has been named after Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov, the Soviet physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and politician, one of the creators of the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb and the recipient of the Noble Peace Prize, the airline’s press-service reports. AEX.ru

Thus, Aeroflot’s fleet includes 16 long-haul A-330 family jets. Aeroflot has acquired the jet from CEGAS under the conditions of operational leasing. А330-300s are delivered to Aeroflot directly from airframer’s site. The aircraft has a range of 10500 km. Its capacity is 296 passengers. The jets are equipped with Rolls-Royce Trent 772В engines.

Aeroflot acquires А330-300s with a two-class cabin configuration: 28 seats in business-class and 268 – in the economy-class. The new jets are prepared for installation of equipment providing an access to internet and mobile services for the passengers. А330 aircraft is equipped with state-of-the-art Panasonic eX2 in-flight entertainment system, the passengers of every class have an access to a new entertainment program.

"A 330 wide-bodies provide a high level of comfort enabling usage of chair configuration and classes of service able to meet different passengers’ requirements. A.Sakharov is the third aircraft with a renewed business-class cabin. It is equipped with comfortable B/E Minipod Full-Flat chairs made by B/E Aerospace. The seat pitch has been increased. Aeroflot intends to operate this А330 on routes to New York, Beijing and Vladivostok in the network of Summer-2012 schedule", - the company noted.