Flying-Tiger From Germany, joined Aug 1999, 3975 posts, RR: 45 Posted (3 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1067 times:
Quote: Pulkovo’s acting director general Gennady Boldyrev said the company will substitute its Tu-134 aircrafts with Brazil’s Embraer 170 jets. Pulkovo intends to lease and buy 10 of those. Thus, the company rejects using similar Russian aircrafts, An-148 and Sukhoi SuperJet100 during several coming years. Meanwhile, aviation experts believe that using any jets of this class is unlucrative due to high prices on aviation fuel.
Gennady Boldyrev, acting director general of Pulkovo, said yesterday the company will substitute all Tu-134 aircrafts it uses now. Pulkovo is to sign a contract with GECAS company to lease 4 Embraer 170 jets which will be arriving between April and June 2007. In mid-2007, Pulkovo will buy 5-6 jets more.
Would put them into the "Let's wait and see category". First they will need to sort out if they will end up on the next issue of the EU blacklist, or not (more info here: http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060920/54112647.html).
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