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Aeroflot BOD Sanctions Purchase of 44 Planes of Airbus, Boeing
The BOD of Aeroflot has sanctioned the purchase of 22 new long-range Airbus 350XWBs and 22 new long-range Boeing 787 Dreamliners, the company said in the news release. The deals are expected to get go-ahead at the EGM of September 4, 2007.
Aeroflot needed nearly a year and a half to choose aircraft to widen its fleet of long-range planes. In this challenge, the latest model of Boeing (787 Dreamliner) stood against the most up-to-date model of Airbus (A350).
The main difficulty was the difference in preference of Aeroflot management and Russia’s government, which is the principal owner of the company. The former backed up Boeing, while the better part of bureaucrats clearly favored Airbus. Aeroflot’s biggest minority holder, NRK that also preferred Boeing blamed pressurizing on the government from time to time.
The breakthrough happened in summer. On June 20, Aeroflot and Airbus sealed the contract for A350-XWB delivery. Under the deal, Russia will get 22 planes of Airbus from 2014 to 2017. A350 is able to carry from 270 to 350 passengers for the distance of up to 15,000 kilometers.
A week earlier, however, Aeroflot bought 22 Boeing-787 Dreamliners from the key competitor of Airbus.
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