Aeroflot, the flag carrier and the largest airline in Russia, plans to order 300 new aircraft from local manufacturer United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Russian-based media reported.
The order will mainly consist of domestically-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) regional aircraft and single-aisle Irkut MC-21 aircraft. The airline also ordered an unspecified quantity of medium-range narrow-body Tupolev Tu-204 aircraft, reported citing undisclosed sources on June 8, 2022. Aeroflot and UAC are expected to sign the agreement for the aircraft acquisition in June 2022.
Speaking to on June 2, 2022, Sergei Chemezov, the chief executive of UAC parent company Rostec, said that the manufacturer plans to supply Russia精东影业 aviation market with more than 110 indigenous planes of various types by 2025 while expecting to increase production rates to more than 500 aircraft by 2030.
However, earlier in March 2022, the country精东影业 Prime Minister Yury Borisov that because of the international sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, mass production of two Russian flagship airliners, the SSJ100 and MC-21, will be delayed between 1 and 2 years.
鈥淚n the production of these two flagship models, we used to rely on the supply of Pratt & Whitney engines in the part of the MS-21, which will no longer be supplied,鈥 Borisov confirmed to Interfax. 鈥淭his means that the serial volumes that we plan should now be completely replaced by the domestic PD-14 engine.鈥
Neither Aeroflot nor UAC disclosed when any of the 300 new planes would join the airline精东影业 fleet, according to the reports?
On June 7, 2022, Aeroflot also revealed plans to raise around $3 billion (鈧185.2 billion) in its equity capital by issuing more than 5.42 billion additional shares through an open subscription at a price of $0.57 (鈧34.29) per share.
鈥淭he Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders held on 3 June 2022, approved measures to bolster Aeroflot Group精东影业 financial stability and to restructure obligations under letters of credit,鈥 Aeroflot wrote in a
It continued: 鈥淪hareholders approved an increase in the Company精东影业 equity capital of up to 5,424,308,073 additional shares through an open subscription at a price of RUB 34.29.鈥
