Agreement signed to supply Red Wings with 25 more SSJ100 aircraft
20 July 2021
On the first day of MAKS-2021 Airshow Yevgeny Klyucharev, CEO of Red Wings Airlines, and Oleg Gulyaev, Director of Irkut Corporation Branch «Regional Aircraft», signed the corresponding agreement of intent. Under the agreement, an additional 25 Russian SSJ100 aircraft will be delivered to the airline from 2021 to 2022.
As of September 2020, Red Wings has already been leased 7 of these liners. As a result of the agreement, the number of Superjets in the Red Wings fleet will reach 32, making the airline the second largest operator of this model in the world. A total of 58 SSJ100 aircraft delivery agreements were signed with four airlines on the first day of the airshow.
— The SuperJet agreements signed today confirm that the SSJ100 is in demand. The civilian aircraft fleet of the Russian airlines is being renewed and rightly so, at the expense of domestically produced liners. According to the VCIOM survey, there is an obvious demand among passengers for the expansion of the itinerary network across Russia avoiding Moscow, and the SSJ100 with its characteristics can meet this demand, said Denis Manturov, Minister of Industry and Trade after the ceremony of signing.
— The first year of operations of the SSJ100 has shown that this aircraft is well suited for regional transportation in Russia. Now our Superjets fly from three base airports on about 40 itineraries and we have serious plans for it: we intend to open dozens of new destinations and two to three new bases in regional airports in 2021-2022, said Evgeny Klyucharev, Red Wings CEO.
Red Wings is one of Russia top ten largest airlines, specializing in scheduled and charter passenger traffic. The Red Wings fleet consists of 24 passenger aircraft: 15 Airbus 320/321, seven Russian regional SSJ100s and two long-range Boeing 777s. Base airports are Domodedovo, Koltsovo (Yekaterinburg), Balandino (Chelyabinsk), Pulkovo (St. Petersburg) and Zhukovsky.
