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Aeroflot orders 8 777-300ERs.

LE BOURGET, France, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Aeroflot Russian Airlines today announced an order at the Paris Air Show for eight Boeing 777-300ERs (extended range) jetliners.
"The Boeing 777 will strengthen our long-haul capabilities," said Vitaly Saveliev, director general of Aeroflot Russian Airlines. "These airplanes will play a critical role in our network expansion strategy, particularly the international growth opportunities we expect from our joint businesses with SkyTeam partners when servicing the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games and the 2018 Football World Cup."
"Aeroflot is expanding the strategic capabilities of its long-haul fleet," said Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "We're very grateful for the confidence Aeroflot has placed in Boeing -- and in the 777."
The Boeing 777 is the world's most successful twin-engine, long-haul airplane, distinguished by its fuel-efficiency, spacious cabin interior, range capability, commonality with the 767 and the 787, and its reliability. Featuring wider seats, wider aisles, more headroom and more seating, the Boeing 777 Signature Interior is preferred by passengers. For the fourth straight year, American Express Executive Travel Magazine readers voted the 777 as their favorite airplane.
Russia is an important supplier for the Boeing 777 family. VSMPO, a subsidiary of Rostechnologii State Corporation, manufactures large titanium forgings for landing gears, wings and pylon of the 777 jetliner. Russian engineers at the Moscow Boeing Design Center and IT experts from Russian software companies actively participated in designing the 777-300ER.
Aeroflot is the largest airline and the national carrier in Russia. Its overall flight network comprises 898 locations in 169 countries. In 2010, 11.3 million passengers used Aeroflot's services and about 14 million used the services offered by the Aeroflot group. Consisting of 107 airplanes, Aeroflot is a member of SkyTeam, the global airline alliance. To date, nine of 13 SkyTeam members have ordered a total of 171 777s.
The order was previously attributed to an unidentified customer on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

Russian govt to sell off Aeroflot stake

Russia's government has reiterated its intention to sell a state stake in Aeroflot following its enlargement and reorganisation.
Vice premier and finance minister Alexei Kudrin said the 51% state-owned airline had been put on the extended list of strategically important enterprises scheduled for privatisation.
"Over the next three to five years, the state should cease to be a controlling shareholder in such companies. In the transportation sector, this will, first of all, concern Aeroflot," said Kudrin.
"The aim is to improve corporate governance, encourage private investment in developing key industries and raise up to $30 billion from selling state assets."
In line with the decision to lessen state control over Aeroflot, transport minister Igor Levitin has quit as its governing board chairman.
The value of a 51% government stake in the airline is currently estimated at Rb38 billion ($1.3 billion).
Industry analysts expect it to rise if the management successfully incorporates six provincial carriers, previously owned by the state, and achieves synergies from the enlarged Aeroflot's operation by 2014.

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• TAP a besoin de PUC 'à date' ;
  
• le fait de repousser plus loin l'EIS des A350-XWB-800 l'incommode ;
  
• aussi, il est un fait que TAP Portugal déclare ouvertement sa perception que la reprise du transport aérien, et de son trafic, dera plus forte que prévue, et que cela ne présente aucun risque significatif de 'faire voler trop des sièges vides' en optant pour la variante plus grande, ... soit l'A350-XWB-900;
  
• enfin, dans son contrat de commande, TAP avait prévu, d'un commun accord avec Airbus, la possibilité / l'option de convertir, sans frais, vers une variante autre que celle initialement commandée !
  

[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] parent [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] insists it remains committed to the -800, and is not reviewing the business case, but is discussing options with customers interested in taking the larger -900 following postponement of the -800's development.

TAP had been one of the early signatories for the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], signing up for 10 of the original [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] in 2005 when the type was effectively conceived as a re-engined [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

The Portuguese flag-carrier subsequently firmed options on another two -800s before Airbus overhauled the A350 design and relaunched it as a new aircraft family, the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], in late 2006. Although intended to be an optimised aircraft in its own right, the new version of the A350-800 was revised last year as a smaller version of the -900.

Airbus chose this strategy to increase the -800's range but the airframer also acknowledged that it would raise the type's fuel burn.

While the manufacturer had secured orders for 182 A350-800s in mid-2008 the backlog started sliding away last year as customers began switching to the larger -900. Brazil's TAM and Kuwait's ALAFCO converted 24 -800s to -900s in 2010 and Asiana, Synergy Aerospace and International Lease Finance have all switched either partially or fully to the -900.

Airbus has since pushed back development of the -800 by about two years, postponing entry into service to mid-2016. TAP said its initial deal with Airbus enables it to convert to other variants. "Considering actual and forecasted traffic trends, the A350-900 will better match with TAP's future capacity needs," the airline told Flightglobal.

It has not indicated how many -800s might be switched. Airbus's latest order data also shows lessor CIT - another customer for the original A350 - cancelled its outstanding -800s after converting most of its order for five to the -900 in June. TAP has 12 A350-800s on order and a move to the -900 could potentially bring the -800 backlog down from 135 to 123 aircraft, just two-thirds of the peak total.

EADS chief Louis Gallois, during the company's first-half presentation, said the company was "not questioning the viability" of any of the A350 variants, including the -800.

Amending the development schedule for the -800 would enable EADS to concentrate on the two larger family members, EADS said. Gallois added that the response from airlines has convinced the company to "maintain the three versions", but admitted: "We are in discussions with airlines on the -800 because some of them could be interested in having the -900 before."

Key customers for the -800 include [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], US Airways, Hawaiian Airlines and Aeroflot, holding 62 orders between them. Irish lessor Aircraft Purchase Fleet, which took over Italian carrier [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]'s order for 12 -800s said it still intends to take the twinjets. Uncertainty surrounds other -800 orders - notably for 10 from two Libyan carriers.

Et l'A350-XWB-800 va être un concurrent direct efficace du B787-9 !

Aeroflot prête à étudier le potentiel de l'A380



La compagnie russe Aeroflot est prête à étudier le potentiel du très gros porteur A380 d'Airbus, a déclaré mercredi l'un des responsables de l'avionneur européen.

Selon le quotidien économique RBC, Aeroflot étudie l'achat de cinq A380 d'ici 2015. La compagnie a pour objectif de transporter 70 millions de passagers en 2025 contre 11,3 millions en 2010.

Le quotidien ajoute que l'aéroport moscovite de Cheremetyevo - le "hub" d'Aeroflot - aurait besoin d'être modernisé pour pouvoir accueillir l'A380, qui possède deux niveaux superposés.

Un porte-parole d'Aeroflot s'est refusé à tout commentaire.

"Nous avons commencé à discuter avec la compagnie, nous étudions la possibilité de l'utilisation par Aeroflot de l'A380", a dit Chris Buckley, l'un des directeurs adjoints d'Airbus, à des journalistes lors du salon aéronautique MAKS près de Moscou. "Cela ne veut pas dire que nous (lui) vendrons des A380 demain".

Le directeur général d'Aeroflot Vitali Saveliev avait déclaré à La Tribune en avril que la compagnie n'avait pas besoin de l'A380.

Aeroflot, dont la flotte est traditionnellement composée en majorité d'Airbus, a récemment choisi Boeing comme fournisseur favori. La compagnie devrait commencer en septembre à prendre livraison d'une commande de 22 Boeing 787 reportée de longue date et a signé en mars une commande de huit Boeing 777 estimée à plus de deux milliards de dollars.

Chris Buckley a dit s'attendre à une croissance annuelle de 5% de la flotte d'avions en Russie au cours des 20 prochaines années, alors que des dirigeants de Boeing ont dit mardi évaluer le marché russe sur cette période à 800 avions pour environ 80 milliards de dollars.

"Il y a des avions en service issus de l'ère soviétique qui doivent être remplacés", a-t-il observé.

Plusieurs catastrophes aériennes impliquant des avions russes ont eu lieu au cours des 18 derniers mois - notamment l'accident qui avait causé la mort du président polonais Lech Kaczynski et de 95 autres passagers en avril 2010.

Aeroflot to modernize subsidiaries’ fleet with A320s, SSJ100s

Aeroflot (SU) plans to modernize the fleet of its subsidiaries with Airbus A320s and Russian regional aircraft Sukhoi Superjet 100s (SSJ100s), SU CEO Vitaly Savelyev said.

“Aeroflot now prefers A320s and in [the] future these aircraft will partly renovate the fleet of our subsidiaries. These aircraft will serve international flights primarily,” said Savelyev, adding that the company is considering using SSJ100s in the Far East.

SU has 30 SSJ100s on order, to be used on its domestic routes. This week the carrier received its third aircraft.

In 2010, the Russian government decided the largest Russian carrier would get six airlines belonging to Russian state corporation Rostechnology, in a deal valued at RUB 2.5 billion ($81 million). Four airlines are based in the European part of Russia: Rossiya Airlines (FV), OrenAir (R2), Saratov Airlines (6W) and Mineralnye vody-based KMV (KV), which ceased operations this summer to become part of Donavia. The other two are Far East-based carriers—Vladivostok-Avia (XF) and SAT Airlines (HZ) in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Last year, Rostechnology finalized an order with Boeing for 50 737NGs with purchase rights for an additional 35 aircraft, in a deal valued at $3.7 billion , to be leased to SU.

SU subsidiaries use different aircraft types. FV operates A320s and 737s but is planning to remove its 737s soon, while R2 operates 737s. XF operates A320s, A330s and Tupolev Tu-204-300.

Hugot2 a écrit:Aeroflot pourrait s'engager sur 30 Moyen courriers Airbus
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MOSCOU, 23 novembre (Reuters)


La compagnie aérienne russe Aeroflot va étudier mercredi une commande portant sur l'achat de 30 monocouloirs A320 d'Airbus, d'une valeur de 2,25 milliards de dollars (1,67 milliard d'euros), rapporte le quotidien Vedomosti.

Citant des sources au sein des deux groupes, le journal écrit que la possible commande serait probablement passée via la société Rostekhnologii (Russian Technologies), qui regroupe la plupart des entreprises publiques russes du secteur de la défense.

Aeroflot n'était pas joignable pour un commentaire.

La compagnie, dont la majorité de la flotte est composée d'avions Airbus, a privilégié davantage Boeing lors de ses dernières commandes en date.
(Vladimir Soldatkin, Jean Décotte pour le service français, édité par Cyril Altmeyer)

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• s'il s'agit d'une opération de leasing, en tout ou partie, la commande serait 'tronquée' d'autant pour Airbus, au bénéfice du Lessor ;
  
• on dirait qu'il s'agirait plutôt de MC de la famille A320 "legacy", que d'une opération NEO (quelle motorisation , donc ?).
  

Aeroflot (SU) reported 14.2 million passengers carried, up 25.6% in 2011 over the year-ago period.

International traffic increased 21.9% to 8.7 million passengers and domestic traffic rose 32% to 5.5 million.

RPKs increased 20.8% to 42 billion, producing a load factor of 77.5 %, up 0.3 percentage point.

SU operates a fleet of more than 100 aircraft, including 10 Boeing767s, 14 Airbus A330s, 18 A321s, 43 A320s, 15 A319s, six Il-96-300s, five Sukhoi Superjet 100s and three MD-11Fs.