Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot is going to place an order for 323 new domestically manufactured aircraft.
The plan was announced in a
meeting between the CEO of Aeroflot Sergey Alexandrovsky and Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.
The order should include 73 Sukhoi Superjets, 210 Irkut MC-21s and 40 Tupolev Tu-214s.According to Alexandrovsky, this is the largest aircraft order in Russia “in a long time.” He also noted that the order is a part of the company’s “main priority”: the transition from foreign-made aircraft to domestically manufactured ones.