Russian plane manufacturer Sukhoi has been courting Adria Airways as a potential operator of its flagship Superjet 100 aircraft, with the Slovenian carrier said to have shown interest in the type. The Vice President for Civil Aviation at United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), the parent company of Sukhoi, confirmed that talks have taken place with Adria, without revealing further details. Discussions between the two sides are believed to have started following 4K Invest's acquisition of the Slovenian carrier last year. UAC identified Adria as an ideal customer as early as 2015, due to its fleet structure, which is largely made up of Bombardier CRJ900 aircraft.
The Slovenian airline will have to renegotiate aircraft leasing terms for its existing fleet in the coming years. Later this year, the lease for one of its CRJ700 jets will expire, while leasing arrangements for six CRJ900s, which make up the bulk of Adria's fleet, will end in 2018, 2020 and 2022. Leases for three Airbus A319s run until 2021 and 2024. Adria currently boasts the youngest fleet out of all the national carriers in the former Yugoslavia, with an average age of nine years. Adria's management has made no public comments concerning the airline's fleet or possible changes to its make-up.
The SSJ100 has the capacity to seat between 87 and 108 passengers, depending on cabin layout and seat configuration. It has so far racked up 384 orders and delivered 109 aircraft. In 2016, a total of twenty orders were made for the jets while fourteen have been signed so far in 2017. The Russian manufacturer hopes to secure more orders at the upcoming Paris Air Show next week. The first European carrier outside of Russia to operate the SSJ100 on revenue flights was the Irish regional airline CityJet, while Brussels Airlines has wet-leased some of the aircraft for a two-year period starting this April. Sukhoi is developing a new type of the SSJ100, the B100, which features higher thrust, a longer range and improved takeoff performance. On Friday, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) granted type certificate approval for the B100 variant.
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Imagine that. It has energy and produces arms and some bad cars for the home market. Otherwise nothing!
No real industry which can take it up with the world except for defense and space industry and from where this Antonovs and Ilyushin origin. Planes which no one bought except them selves their allies and some poor nations
Suchoi is international with many parts origin outside Russia, for sure a different product than the older IL and ANT. Still for the sake of JP, i wld not buy them. People in the west and thats where the aircraft will operate to, have a fundamental aversion against russian made products. Russias reputation in the world itself is probably except from Serbia at the very bottom of the rankings
Adria and Bombardier definitely fit better! No need to change the strategy
Also, name one Russian/Soviet made civilian aircraft that has been either a marketing or technological success in the past 50 yeras.
Operational costs are unknown to me.
B737: 9365
A320: 7297
B727: 1832
B747: 1582
B777: 1462
A330: 1330
E-170/190: 1276
DC-9/MD-80: 1191
B767: 1096
B757: 1050
Tu-154: 1026
There are many people liking the SSJ or travelling on alternative planes
The last time I checked SN's flights operated by the SSJ have not been flying empty. Westerners also have no issue flying on SU between Europe and Asia so I think this whole anti-Russian hysteria has no legs to stand on.
Ljubljana has population of 285000, metro 500 000, Nis has 183 000.
Ljubljana is capitol of EU member nation, has nearly million visitors each year, Slovenia is a tourist country with 3.2 million foreign visitors.
So Ljubljana is slightly larger than Nis, but way more important !!!
You're a tiny minority thankfully !
Su-100 - $28 million, 95 seats @31 inch, Range 3000km, fuel 13000l
E-190 - $46 million listed price (but real price is way down @30-32 million tops), 100 seats @31/32 inch, 4500km range, Fuel 12900l
CS100 - $32-35 million (listed price $65 million), 108 in two class configuration,, Range: 5700km, fuel; 17600l
CRJ 900, $28 million ($46 million listed price), 90 @31 inch. fuel- 8000l, 2800km range.
So what, so is Nicosia yet it doesn't have a functional airport.
Barely, but it is less efficient than CRJ 900 or 1000.
Adria would be best served if it ordered 10 CS100 and used one unified fleet of CS100s or E190 E2, when they become available, configured for 85+12 or 106 pax. 10 E190 E2 on lease to own would cost Adria around $300 million over 10 year lease to own deal.
Croatian Airlines purchased 6 Q400s on $105 million lease to own. However, Q400 has less seats, only 78, to E190 E2's 95 or 106 seats.
CS100 deal would be slightly more expensive, but perhaps not ideal for Adria, $327 million deal for 10 CS100s, would be difficult to repay due to small market factor on Adria flights. Market for 70-100 seat aircraft is ideal for Adria. For OU ideal market is 100-128 seats.
Nicosia can't have an airport due to situation in Cyprus, Larnaca is now main airport in Cyprus, handling most of the traffic in Cyprus.
EU capitol means, has more going for it, more opportunities and more trade and travel.
Look at capitol cities of Romania, Bulgaria, Czech R, Hungary, Baltic States before the EU membership, and after EU membership.
Even Zagreb is now facing same surge, although old terminal was a stumbling growth, new terminal will enable fast growth.
Ljubljana is expecting 1.7 million pax this year and if it continues to grow, it'll fast reach 2.5 million pax, 2020, most likely.
I don't think you'll be able to say same for Nis, which is relatively unimportant city in Serbia. If Nis ever hits 1 million pax, that'll be massive success. Ljubljana on the other hand could hit 5 million by 2030, 10 million by 2050. I am not saying it will, just that it can.
This is the difference between a capitol of an EU country and just small regional city in a country that has little influence in Europe or world.
2. I don't think you can predict the future when it comes to INI. So far they had tremendous success that no one expected, especially when it comes to Swiss which, btw, suspended LJU despite all of its benefits and advantages.
3. Growth of an airport has very little to do if it's in the EU or not, look at Belgrade for example.
It has to do with the costs at the airport, the purchasing power of the local population, the overall state of the economy, which airlines you have flying there...
What INI has done is that it played it really smart. Their removed any excess charges, kept the bare minimum and invited ULCCs such as Ryanair and Wizz Air. Ever since they launched flights to Nis they kept on adding more destinations and frequencies. Now, if that's not an indicator of things to come then I don't know what it is.
You seem to have forgotten these facts when you were writing your little analysis. INI will welcome some 350.000 passengers this year, they might easily reach 450.000 maybe even 500.000 next year.
http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/6/0/4079063.jpg
I am sure, your statement has some backing like a link to such reliable wide sources you claim to exist???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100
https://www.easa.europa.eu/system/files/dfu/TCDS_EASA.IM_.A.001_EMB-170_Iss_11_26072016.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_family
I somehow trust reliable sources such as EASA, than your widely available source you failed to post a link to.
Sukhoi Superjet 100 orders are mostly in Russia and 3rd world or Russian client countries.
with only 239 aircraft on order, or delivered.
http://superjet100.info/registry-english
Embraer E-Jet has delivered 1317 aircraft so far, (157 more to be delivered) E2 yet to roll out with order book for 233.
Er, lets see who i'll trust here.
U svakon datom trenutku dajem prednost kakvoci nad velicinom.
I hope that maybe they will arrive, because I am from LJU.
And this livery is so bad :)
Not true, the Russians are desperate to sell the aircraft outside of Russia. They are willing to go to extreme measures to convince the potential customers to take the plane.
http://www.luchtzak.be/airlines/lufthansa-group/brussels-airlines/trip-report-flying-the-sukhoi-superjet-operated-by-cityjet/
Antonov is from Ukraine.
Russian brands are:
Kalashnikov(Firearms)
NPO Saturn(Rocket engines)
Lada(AvtoVaz automobiles)
Moskovskaya, Stolichnaya(vodka)
Polet, Molnija, Pobeda(and other watchmakers)
Horizon, LOMO(cameras)
Kaspersky Lab(computer software)
etc.
Also, there are brands whose owners/founders have fled Russia after the October revolution, like Faberge(imperial jeweller) and Sikorski(helicopters).....
In future, please try information sources other than NATO propaganda bulletins....
There is an armistice(i.e. war-, front-)line running thru that airport. Not so long ago, people were shot at there...
LOL´ing that is completely inapropriate!
That was one of the reasons why the new terminal was built at LCA and not in the Nicosia plain. That and because the main population centers are along the southern coast. Not to mention that tourism is also there.
The last time someone was shot was in 1996 when a Greek Cypriot ran across the border to tear down the flag of the northern Cypriot republic. Since then tensions were eased and crossings have been opened (2004).
The only reason why I asked that question was because I wanted that guy to answer so that I can show how clueless he is on this topic.
I agree, however Russia has another plane coming on to the market (MS-21).
Oh,Boy....
FYI: Russians build Planes that follow the same rules and regulations as Boeing, Airbus and/or others.
Besides that, I don't know any other branch that is more international than aviation. Perhaps you should take your bias and prejudice someplace else?
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1. SSJ100 (aka RRJ-95) EASA certified maximum capacity is 98 seats @32 inch (all economy). This is CityJet cabin config.
The Mexican Interjet's SSJ cabin config is 93 @ 34 inch (also all economy). The decreased capacity is because of hot and high operations.
Some Russian operators use 103@30 inch.
Also, there is flex-cabin configuration, where the operator can change the cabin layout on demand switching from 100Y single class to 8C+85Y double class.
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2. The fuel tank capacity, as per EASA certificate, is 15800 liters (usable fuel).
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3. The EASA certified long-range SSJ100LR version has 4500 km range.
https://www.easa.europa.eu/system/files/dfu/TCDS-EASA.IM_.A.176-RRJ95%20Issue%203.pdf
I was suspicious, after the airBaltic investment by Ralf Dieter Montag (ARQ Holdings-Germany), to the tune of $55M for 20% who was labeled by Latvia's Ministry of Interior as "potential security risk" and "undesirable" investor possibly links to KGB and East German Stasi Secret Police. Well, investigation showed he came with a offer for 5 x SSJ100's for airBaltic for his invetsment, in short, Latvia moved quickly, forbid the airline to lease, operate buy ANY Russian aircraft.
Russia was using all sorts of tactics to sell the SSJ, previously at VLM Airlines (belgium F50 operator), after a "management buy out" by its General Manager, funded most likely by Russians, orders 12 x SSJ100's.
Well, true to form, the word is out Adria Airways is now negotiating with Sukhoi for 12 x SSJ100's, just as I predicted 18 months ago.
Russians are probably behind CityJet's huge SSJ100 order as well, READ the article.