Russian Airline Buys B-737s
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MOSCOW - Russian airline Atlant-Soyuz is buying four Boeing 737-700 passenger jets, the companies said Thursday at Russia's biggest air show.
The catalog price of the order is $249 million.
It was listed as unidentified by Boeing Co. last year and is accounted for in the Chicago-based airplane manufacturer's 2006 order totals. The deal was announced Thursday at the International Aviation and Space Show outside Moscow.
Atlant-Soyuz is the flag carrier of the Moscow city government, which owns a controlling stake in the airline. It operates scheduled flights within Russia and charter flights to destinations in Europe, Egypt and North Africa.
"The key factors in our purchase decision were the 737-700's superior range - enhanced further for Atlant-Soyuz with efficiency-enhancing blended winglets - and its industry-leading dispatch reliability," Valery Menitsky, chairman of the board of directors of Atlant-Soyuz, was quoted as saying in a news release.
The airline already flies two Boeing-737s that it leases. The rest of its fleet consists of Russian aircraft.
