March 6, 2012 Moscow

Aeroflot Russian Airlines puts its sixth Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft (SSJ100) in operation. The airliner is painted in the SkyTeam livery.

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 MSN 95013 (registered number RA-89005) was delivered to Aeroflot under contract with the VEB-Leasing JSC on financial lease (leasing). The delivered aircraft is designed to carry 87 passengers in a comfortable two-class layout (12 – business class and 75 – in economy class).

Aeroflot ordered 30 SSJ100 aircraft in total. The airline currently operates six SSJ100 aircraft serving routes from Moscow to 13 Russian cities as well as to Minsk, Budapest Oslo and Stockholm. Aeroflot operations confirm that the aircraft perfectly match their requirements in terms of high frequency departures on regional routes.

By February 29, 2012 six SSJ100s in service with Armavia and Aeroflot accumulated more than 4,900 flight hours in more than 2,500 revenue flights.