PUTIN URGES AEROFLOT TO BUY MORE RUSSIAN-MADE PLANES
Baku, July 10 (AZERTAC). Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday demanded that one of Russia`s biggest airlines, Aeroflot, should buy more domestically-built planes, Itar-Tass reports.
At a working meeting with Aeroflot Director-General Vitaly Savelyev, Putin instructed the company`s management to draft a relevant project. “Replenishing your fleet, you should orient towards domestically manufactured planes,” Putin said.
According to Savelyev, the company currently has 115 planes, of which six are Russian-made IL-96 aircraft. “The rest aircraft are of foreign manufacture. We have 11 Boeing 767 planes, 65 Airbus 320 planes, and 10 Airbus 330 long-haul wide-body planes,” he noted.
By 2016, the company plans to acquire 22 Boeing 787 planes and 22 Airbus 350 planes, which are currently at the designing stage. Aeroflot also plans to get Russian-built Sukhoi Superjets-100. “We have a contract for 30 such jets, and have already signed a contract with a leasing company for 10 planes,” Savelyev said.
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