PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 1, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 5891 times:
Good for Ilyushin, but where is Cubana getting the cash to pay for these airplanes?
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N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 2, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 5880 times:
Quoting PanAm747 (Reply 1): Good for Ilyushin, but where is Cubana getting the cash to pay for these airplanes?
From the article:
"To finance the deal, Cuba has paid 15% of the total sum up front, the rest coming from a 10-year loan from Russian banks."
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PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 3, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 5880 times:
Quote: "To finance the deal, Cuba has paid 15% of the total sum up front, the rest coming from a 10-year loan from Russian banks."
Thanks - missed it completely!!
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Ikramerica From United States of America, joined exactly 8 years ago today! , 21029 posts, RR: 60 Reply 5, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 5778 times:
guess this rules out castro as the 1 ufo 787.
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PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 5621 times:
Quote: They get the cash from their oil exports. With the current price of crude oil beating records, oil gives you lots of money to buy planes.
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Sounds like Uncle Hugo is giving Uncle Fidel a little spending cash. I don't recall Cuba having major oil exports...
Maybe one day when Cuba opens up to Americans I might get a chance to fly one of these Russian beauties.
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Luisde8cd From Venezuela, joined Aug 2004, 2516 posts, RR: 34 Reply 7, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 5576 times:
Quoting PanAm747 (Reply 8): Sounds like Uncle Hugo is giving Uncle Fidel a little spending cash. I don't recall Cuba having major oil exports...
Cuba gets discounted oil from Venezuela as part of the San Jose Energy Cooperation Agreement which is enough to cover Cuba's demands, but in addition to that agreement, Chavez sends a couple extra oil tankers a month to Cuba to pay the island for the couple hundred Cuban doctors that work in Venezuela (which are paid a salary also by the Venezuelan govt.).
Cuba re-exports this extra oil and earns huge profits. It's the greatest deal of the century for Cuba!
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Luis
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LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12335 posts, RR: 12 Reply 9, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 5057 times:
As long (and hopefully for actually a very short time, don't forget he is elderly) as Castro is in power, he needs a long distance aircraft. He obiously cannot by Boeing or even Airbus (due to USA embargos) so what other kind of a/c can he buy? Yes, he is like any other despot who rapes financially his terribly poor and opressed citizens, living very well above the rest of society.
Hoya From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 361 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 4996 times:
I'm surprised that no one noticed the link to airliners.net on the BBC website. In the top right hand corner, under Related Internet Links, there is a link to 'Aviation Photos Il-96-300,' which leads directly to airliners.net pictures of Il-96s.
SFOMEX From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 4869 times:
Let's go back to the thread.
This Il-96 looks impressive. I wonder if Castro will have the best presidential airplane in Latin America. As far as I know, Mexican President flies a 757 and Chavez (Venezuela) an A319. I believe that the Argentinean plane (Tango 1) is a 757, but I'm not sure.
What about other countries in South America? Any idea?
Diamond From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3279 posts, RR: 66 Reply 12, posted (7 years 2 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 4845 times:
After deleting 24 individual posts within this thread that were either political, insutling or factually incorrect - it's time to lock this one down.
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