up to 300 ight hours a month per aircraft
and has reliability somewhere in the region
of 99%+,” he revealed.
Gazpromavia, the airline arm of the giant
Russian energy rm Gazprom, was the
launch customer of the Long Range variant,
performing the rst commercial service with
the type in March 2014 between Moscow
and Sovetsky City in northern Russia. The
airline operates a eet of ten SSJ100-95LRs
on domestic and international routes.
Another Russian carrier, Yakutia Airlines,
operates two Superjets and ordered a
further three SSJ100-95LRs at this year’sParis Air Show. They are used on ights to
the Far East, Siberia, the Urals, southern
Russia and also to China, Japan and South
Korea.
Red Wings Airlines became the newest
operator of the type when it received its rst
SSJ100-95B on January 19 last year.
The aircraft, RA-89021 (c/n 95021), was
the rst of three delivered to the Moscow
Domodedovo-based carrier under an
October 2014 lease agreement with SCAC.
Con gured with a 93-seat two-class cabin,
eight in Business Class and 85 in Economy,
they have been leased for an initial ve-yearperiod and are used on services between
Moscow and Makhachkala and Grozny in the
south as well as Ufa, Sochi and Mineralnye
Vody among others. Now with a eet of ve
aircraft, the carrier is busily expanding its
network for the SSJ100.
Other airlines that have operated the
Superjet include launch customer Armavia,
Moskovia Airlines, Center South Airlines and
Indonesia’s Sky Aviation, all of which have
since ceased operations. A single example,
RDPL-34195 (c/n 95026), was delivered
to Lao Central Airlines in February 2013,
shortly before it too suspended operations.
The aircraft has been in storage at Vientiane
ever since, but early last year local media
reports suggested the carrier was looking to
resume ights.
UTair-Express agreed to acquire six
SSJ100-95LRs from VEB-Leasing, tted with
103 seats in a single-class layout, however
the carrier’s nancial problems resulted in
deliveries being cancelled.
The type has also won orders from
government agencies and VIP customers.
Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations
has two Long Range variants on order while
the Ministry of Internal Affairs has acquired
one of the former Aero ot ‘light’ examples.
SFD Rossiya has also agreed a deal to
acquire two SSJ100s originally destined for
Lao Central.
RusJet operates an SBJ to ferry executives
around and Comlux has acquired an airframe
originally intended for UTair-Express for VIP
use in and around Kazakhstan. The aircraft
has been reregistered 9H-SBJ (c/n 95060) and
was own from Venice to Indianapolis for cabin
tting in August. An undisclosed customer
from Asia has also ordered two examples for
VIP duties.ORDERS
While Andrachnikov declined to disclose
how many orders SCAC had on its books,
he did say: “We have a rm guideline given
from the government that we must sell at
least 30 a year over the length of the entire
programme.”46 Aviation News incorporating Classic Aircraft February 2016Yakutia SSJ100-95B RA-89011 res up the engines on a snow-covered
ramp. The airline operates the Superjet on domestic services as well as
international routes to China, Japan and South Korea. SCAC/Alexey PetrovAbove: Sukhoi Superjet 100 RA-89039 has been acquired by SFD Rossiya and features a three-
cabin interior. AirTeamImages.com/Alexander Mishin
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