In a press release out today, Superjet International announced: “Since the beginning of July 2017 Sukhoi Superjet 100 has successfully performed flights to one of the oldest airports of Northern Europe – Bromma (Sweden). It has relatively short runway of…
This week saw two announcements that seem confusing. First came Bombardier’s news about the Cityjet CRJ900 order being firmed up. The came Falko’s announcement about its CRJ900 deal with SAS. The first announcement was that Bombardier firmed its purchase agreement,…
In August CityJet flew an SSJ into Bodø Airport, Norway. Which would be normal, you’d think. Except Bodø had no towbar for the SSJ. So, with a schedule to keep, and a ground crew not willing to let the schedule…
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft announced that, at the request of CityJet, the SSJ can now operate from runways that are only 30m wide. This new EASA allowance enables the airline to deploy the aircraft in a number of important airports, most…
At the recent Farnborough show there was a lot of attention on Airbus and Boeing as the biggest news makers. With these two firms having the largest volume sales in order size and value, this is to be expected. But,…
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company and SuperJet International (a joint venture between Leonardo-Finmeccanica Company and Sukhoi Holding) celebrated the delivery of the first Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) to CityJet, which becomes the first European SSJ100 customer. The Irish airline will lease…