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Italian airline Alitalia has decided to drop Russian plane maker Sukhoi for a possible $500 million regional jet order, saying Friday that it could wait no longer for Sukhoi's delayed new Superjet 100 and would opt for planes from Brazil's Embraer instead.
The Superjet 100 is Russia's first newly designed passenger aircraft since the fall of the Soviet Union and is being developed and marketed with strong involvement from Italy, amid increasingly warm ties between the countries.
Alenia Aeronautica, a unit of Italian group Finmeccanica, holds a 25 percent stake in the Sukhoi project to build a 75- to 95-seat airliner with Western avionics and also owns 51 percent of a Venice-based marketing arm called Superjet International set up to export the plane.
He added: "We couldn't procrastinate any longer on the choice, and it seemed to us that the airliner that has yet to fly was not compatible with our timeline." But the decision looked set to trigger an internal dispute within Italy as the decision left Alenia fuming about the move.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/busine...ys/427162.html
The Superjet 100 is Russia's first newly designed passenger aircraft since the fall of the Soviet Union and is being developed and marketed with strong involvement from Italy, amid increasingly warm ties between the countries.
Alenia Aeronautica, a unit of Italian group Finmeccanica, holds a 25 percent stake in the Sukhoi project to build a 75- to 95-seat airliner with Western avionics and also owns 51 percent of a Venice-based marketing arm called Superjet International set up to export the plane.
He added: "We couldn't procrastinate any longer on the choice, and it seemed to us that the airliner that has yet to fly was not compatible with our timeline." But the decision looked set to trigger an internal dispute within Italy as the decision left Alenia fuming about the move.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/busine...ys/427162.html
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