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Aeroflot is going to take delivery of 50 Sukhoi SuperJet 100 aircraft by 2016

Russian Aviaton » Tuesday April 14, 2015 16:58 MSK
Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 | © Vasily Kuznetsov | www.flickr.com/photos/vasilykuznetsov/

Aeroflot is going to take delivery of 50 Sukhoi SuperJet 100 aircraft by 2016, Aeroflot CEO Vitaly Savelyev said at a meeting with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, press-service of the Kremlin reports.

«We have the youngest fleet in the world among carriers operating more than 100 aircraft. Our primary objective is to add Russian-produced aircraft to our fleet; today we already have 18 state-of-the-art Sukhoi SuperJet 100 jets and it is more than 10%. We hope that, in accordance with decisions made at your meeting, we will take delivery of 50 aircraft of the type by 2016; we also expect to take delivery of 50 MS-21 jets (mass production of MS-21 airliners will be started in 2017),» Vitaly Savelyev said.