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Syria is considering Russian aircraft to upgrade the fleet of state-run Syrian Arab Airlines and will initially buy two planes before making a final decision about a larger order.
“We have pre-approval to buy two planes as a trial at the beginning to see if they meet our needs,” the carrier’s Chief Executive Officer Ghaida Abdullatif said in a telephone interview from Damascus today. “We will then decide about buying more planes.”
Syria turned to Russia after U.S. sanctions stalled negotiations on the purchase of as many as 50 Airbus SAS aircraft, Abdallah Dardari, deputy prime minister for economic affairs, said last month. He said his country was looking for planes with less than 10 percent of U.S. components, leaving Russia as Syria’s only option. The use of U.S. parts has also ruled out turning to Brazil’s Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA and Canada’s Bombardier Inc., Dardari said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-1...-buy-more.html
“We have pre-approval to buy two planes as a trial at the beginning to see if they meet our needs,” the carrier’s Chief Executive Officer Ghaida Abdullatif said in a telephone interview from Damascus today. “We will then decide about buying more planes.”
Syria turned to Russia after U.S. sanctions stalled negotiations on the purchase of as many as 50 Airbus SAS aircraft, Abdallah Dardari, deputy prime minister for economic affairs, said last month. He said his country was looking for planes with less than 10 percent of U.S. components, leaving Russia as Syria’s only option. The use of U.S. parts has also ruled out turning to Brazil’s Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA and Canada’s Bombardier Inc., Dardari said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-1...-buy-more.html
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