St-Petersburg’s enterprise Pulkovo intends to increase in
2005 its fleet of aircraft by adding to it some new air planes-
An-148-100B and Tu-204-300. According to the information
obtained by Regnum news agency from the enterprise’s press
service, this possibility was discussed on June 8-9, 2004 at
talks with Ilyushin Finance Co., Antonov Design Bureau and
Tupolev JSC representatives In all, starting from 2005, the
enterprise plans to acquire up to 10 An-148-100B and up to 5
Tu-204-300 planes.
It should be noted that the federal unitary state-owned
enterprise Pulkovo has now in service as many as 19 Tu-154M
planes, 10 Tu-154Bs. 10 Tu-134s and 7 Il-86 airbuses. The total
number of aircraft the enterprise operate now accounts for 46.
Over 2003 the enterprise transported 2 ,403,449 passengers which
exceeds the number of passengers transported in 2002 by 16,1%.
It is worth noting that in early 2004 there was announced a
planned merger of Rossiya state company and Pulkovo. According
to a decision taken on the matter a new united air company will
be formed with airport property complex and Pulkovo airport
being separated. The united air enterprise will be registered in
St.-Petersburg.
By: LateFreight - 28th June 2004 at 15:45
Sounds cool. Good to hear that the TU204 is finally getting the sales it deserves.
Right on, I was happy to see a western customer in the form on TNT use it for a while… The new gen. russian airliners would be great sellers if only the manufacturers could gurantee good maintanance support, which they can’t
By: tenthije - 23rd June 2004 at 20:00
Does anyone happen to know on what route(s) the new planes will be used? And when in 2005 will the planes be delivered?
By: tenthije - 22nd June 2004 at 18:32
Sounds cool. Good to hear that the TU204 is finally getting the sales it deserves.
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