Aircraft
Aeroflot to sign for A350s, if not here, then at MAKS
EADS expects to sign a firm contract with Aeroflot for 22 of the new Airbus A350XWB airliners here at the Paris Air Show this week, or perhaps at Moscow’s

EADS expects to sign a firm contract with Aeroflot for 22 of the new Airbus A350XWB airliners here at the Paris Air Show this week, or perhaps at Moscow’s MAKS’2007 event in August. This follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding on the deal in March this year.

In the meantime, the Russian flag carrier has selected leasing group AerCap to supply five A330-200s next year and three more in 2009 as a stopgap solution. Aeroflot general director Valery Okulov said that “to be on the safe side” the airline will take three to five initial-production A350XWBs on operating leases and then, upon completion of the new model’s “operational trials,” will either firm up or cancel its plans for longer term leases on all 22 aircraft outlined in the agreement.

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