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CORRECTED-Irish airline takes delivery of Russia's first post-Soviet passenger jet

Published 2016-05-25, 04:14 a/m
© Reuters. CORRECTED-Irish airline takes delivery of Russia's first post-Soviet passenger jet

(Corrects the number of seats in Superjet 100 to 98 from 89)
DUBLIN, May 24 (Reuters) - Ireland's CityJet on Tuesday
became the first western European airline to take delivery of
the Russian-designed passenger jet that Vladimir Putin hopes
will compete internationally with planes made by the likes of
Brazil's Embraer EMBR3.SA and Canada's Bombardier BBDb.TO .
The first of 15 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft leased by
CityJet was delivered in Venice, the airline said, with the
option for 16 more in a deal worth more than $1 billion
including servicing.
The 98-seat Superjet 100 is the first Russian-designed
passenger jet to be built since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet
Union in a project championed by Russian President Putin.
The project is led by Sukhoi -- part of state-owned United
Aircraft Corporation UNAC.MM , which Putin created in 2006 to
reorganise and revive the country's aircraft industry -- in
partnership with Italy's Finmeccanica LDOF.MI .
Sukhoi announced the deal with CityJet last year, describing
it as a "significant milestone" for the project.
CityJet, which operates eight routes into the small London
City Airport and a service linking to Air France's hub at Paris
Charles de Gaulle, said it expects to take delivery of three
Superjets this year, with the remainder arriving from 2017.
The Superjet programme had to overcome a problematic 2012
after one of its planes crashed in Indonesia during a
promotional flight, which investigators said was a result of
pilot error and Jakarta air traffic control's lack of a minimum
safe altitude system.
Russia's Aeroflot was the first airline to operate the
Superjet 100.

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