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Report: Aeroflot considering additional A350s
July 13th 2018
Russia’s Aeroflot, a SkyTeam member, is considering a top-up order for the A350, Reuters has reported citing sources close to the deal. Read More »
Aeroflot has thus far placed orders for 14 A350-900s, deferred several times, and now scheduled for first delivery in 2020.
The Reuters report said the airline was mulling to increase that order to up to 25 XWBs.
Last month, the Aeroflot board signed off on a purchase order for 50 Irkut MC-21-300s, originally announced last year.
The Russian flag carrier and SkyTeam member plans to take the aircraft on lease from Aviacapital-Service, which is part of Rostec State Corporation, a Russian state corporation established in late 2007 to consolidate strategically important firms with the ultimate goal of capitalizing them and floating them on the stock exchange. Aeroflot expects to take delivery of the 50 MC-21-300s from the first quarter of 2020 through to the third quarter of 2026.
Irkut has received approximately 200 orders from Russian carriers and lessors for the MC-21-200 and MC-21-300 variants. The MC-21 programme will be powered by either Pratt & Whitney PW1400G engines or Russian-built Aviadvigatel PD-14 power plants.
The flag carrier now has approximately 240 aircraft in its fleet mostly Airbus and Boeing jets. It also operates approximately 40 Sukhoi SuperJet 100s. It had ordered 50 but keeps approximately ten permanently grounded.
In 2015, Aeroflot cancelled an order for 22 B787 Dreamliners.
