MOSCOW – Russia has been talking to India as well about supplying SSJ100jets amid rising demands for passenger planes in one of the world’s fastestgrowing aviation markets.
The opportunities to sell the Russian planes in foreign markets havebrightened as the share of US components in the plane has dipped to lessthan 10 percent. This reported by Sputnik.
Expanding its economic co-operation with Islamabad, Russia is studying thepossibility of exporting its SSJ100 passenger jets, made by Russia’s SukhoiCivil Aircraft Company, to Pakistan. The talk about delivering 6-16civilian planes will continue next year as well.
“We are communicating directly with Pakistan Air, we are conductingnegotiations with this company, and we have agreed that work will continuein January, given that we should make calculations regarding thedestination network with our colleagues. This is about the possibledelivery of from six to 16 SSJ100s,” Russian Industry and Trade MinisterDenis Manturov said on Wednesday.
“We have all the necessary capabilities for this from the point of view offinancial support, and the question arises of service – we will have tofind a solution with our colleagues on what basis and at what number ofaircraft it will be most effective,” he added.
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The announcement was made during the sixth session of the Pak-RussiaInter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, and Scientific TechnicalCooperation in Islamabad. The Minister for Economic Affairs, Hammad Azharis leading the Pakistani delegation while the 64-member Russian side is ledby its trade minister Denis Valentinovich.
The two sides are discussing ways and means to bolster cooperation in theareas of energy, railways and communications.
