{"id":86186,"date":"2011-04-15T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=86186"},"modified":"2011-04-15T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:04:02","slug":"aeroflot-may-impose-penalties-on-sukhoi-armavia-hasnt-had-any-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/15\/aeroflot-may-impose-penalties-on-sukhoi-armavia-hasnt-had-any-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Aeroflot May Impose Penalties on Sukhoi. Armavia Hasn&#8217;t Had Any Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The managers of one of Russia\u2019s leading air carriers, Aeroflot, are about to ask the government to enforce penalties against Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company for the failure to deliver Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft on time, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said on Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itar-tass.com\/eng\/level2.html?NewsID=16157134&amp;PageNum=0\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>reports Itar-Tass news agency<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contract delivery term has expired,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd now managers are drafting their proposals on penalties to be<\/p>\n<p>submitted first to Aeroflot\u2019s board of directors and then to the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Aeroflot may raise claims to the technical condition of the superjets if it impacts economic aspects of their use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now, Aeroflot has a number of questions regarding superjet\u2019s technical parameters, which differ from those fixed by the contract signed several years ago,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n<p>The first Sukhoi Superjet 100 flew in Nov. 2010, and one of its first customers was Armenia&#8217;s Armavia airlines.<\/p>\n<p>As told to Epress.am by Armavia press secretary Nana Avetisova, their company has had no problems with Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company CJSC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will receive this Superjet 100 on time. The opening ceremony will take place on Apr. 19 at Zvartnots [Yerevan] airport as planned,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the commercial aircraft is designed to carry up to 98 passengers. Fourteen SSJ-100 airplanes are set to be produced in 2011; 25, in 2012; then, 60\u201370 per year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the world aeronautical press agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avionews.com\/index.php?corpo=see_news_home.php&amp;news_id=1127537&amp;pagina_chiamante=index.php\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">AvioNews<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, the first SSJ-100 passenger flight was scheduled for Apr. 12, connecting Yerevan to Moscow.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Sukhoi Superjet 100 flew in Nov. 2010, and one of its first customers was Armenia&#8217;s Armavia airlines.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24962,657,65942,24964,18193,18200,24963,18199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}