S7 Group is considering acquiring up to twenty Embraer Regional Jets airline sources have told Gazeta.ru.

According to Rusaviainsider, the aircraft most likely to be leased are EMB-170/EMB-175 types and, in the event a commitment is signed, the first two could arrive by December of this year.

Once in-country, they will be deployed on seasonally-sensitive domestic Russian routes such as Moscow Domodedovo - Nizhniy Novgorod, and Novosibirsk to Abakan and Kyzyl among others.

According to the CH-aviation aircraft database, there are several known commercial and private operators of Embraer machinery in Russia including: Aviakompania Petroff; Komiaviatrans; Orion-X;PremierAvia; RusLine; The Russian Copper Company; Saratov Airlines; Sfera Jet; and TopAvia.

For its part, S7 Airlines (part S7 Group) is largely an Airbus operation employing twenty A319-100 (including one CJ variant), nineteen A320-200, six A321-200, and two B767-300(ER) (set to be returned to AWAS shortly). Contrastingly Globus airline (also part S7 Group) is a Boeing outfit employing nineteen B737-800.