6:59 am, May 15, 2020
After years of failing to find new buyers on the open market, the Russian state corporation Rostec plans to supply Red Wings Airlines with as many as 60 “Sukhoi Superjet 100” aircraft over the next several years, three sources told the newspaper Vedomosti.
Since 2016, Red Wings Airlines has belonged to the United Aircraft Corporation, which is in turn a Rostec subsidiary. A state leasing company will reportedly use federal subsidies to purchase the SSJ100s. According to Vedomosti, the new planes will be $33 million each — roughly what they cost before the coronavirus pandemic plunged the aviation industry into chaos.
The SSJ100 is post-Soviet Russia’s first civilian aircraft developed from the ground up. Over the past nine years, United Aircraft Corporation has managed to sell 173 of these jets and has the capacity to maintain its pace of production, except demand for all aircraft has plummeted due to the global coronavirus pandemic. Even before the health crisis, however, SSJ100 sales slowed because of a shortage of spare parts that caused long delays in necessary repairs.
Another Putin vanity project up in flames. He should have stuck to poker, the world would have been better for it. Russia too. I bet even the Kremlin prefers to fly on Boeing. Pisscough might be lying through his coughs right now but they can’t blame the China virus either. This is from 19 February…
https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-no-orders-for-russian-made-superjet-rival-to-western-jets-except-aeroflot-sources-2020-2
In essence this is then. a State funded Airline, hiding behind a ‘Company Front’.
Obviously been told to buy theses planes otherwise ‘Red Wings’ presumably could have bought many of the planes there are available at the moment and for less money.
By the way Google ‘Red Wings’ Excellent choice for a Company name……….
I should have said Google ‘What does it mean to get Red Wings’.
Bhaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!