Sukhoi to complete Adria deliveries by 2021
The Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company will deliver all fifteen Superjet 100 aircraft planned for Adria Airways within two years, with the order to be firmed up soon. The Russian Minister for Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, said, "I expect that the orders will be firmed up in the near future. The contract is quite complex and entails both the delivery of new SSJ100s, as well as the decommissioning of the CityJet aircraft of the same type which will be transferred to Adria". He added, "We will be able to start deliveries in 2019. It will take two years for all of the contracted aircraft to be delivered".
The President of the Sukhoi Civil Aviation Company, Alexander Rubtsov, previously said the contract, the value of which has not been disclosed, will be firmed up during the first quarter of 2019, with deliveries likely to begin in April. A Memorandum of Understanding between Slovenia's national carrier and the Russian manufacturer was signed in November of last year. As a result, Adria will operate Russian-manufactured aircraft for the first time in its almost 58-year history. The Sukhoi Superjet has the capacity to seat between 87 and 108 passengers, depending on cabin layout and seat configuration. The first European carrier outside of Russia to operate the SSJ100 on revenue flights was the Irish regional airline CityJet, which returned the aircraft to its owner last month.
The Superjet 100s will be supplied to Adria under a long-term lease and will be financed by European banks. The airline itself does not own any aircraft. Its two Bombardier CRJ700s are being leased until December 2019, one A319 will stay with the company until 2021, with the leasing contract for the other two Airbuses expiring in April and May 2022. The Slovenian carrier has four CRJ900s under contract until 2022, another two until 2026 and 2027, while one of the jets is being leased through a pay-by-the-hour agreement, where Adria pays its dues to the lessor based on aircraft utilisation. Adria Airways' CEO, Holger Kowarsch, previously said the Sukhoi jets will "completely support Adria's development strategy". "During the past two years we have been analysing the SSJ100 and came to the conclusion that all the technical and operational characteristics of this aircraft would suit our strategic goals the best”, he added.
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