ArmInfo. Russia will support Armenia due to issue of establishment of national air carrier.
"We keep working on establishing the national air carrier ( with Hungary). And now we will deal with the same issue in respect to Armenia as well," Denis Manturov, the Russian Minister of Industry and Trade said after the pan Russian forum on industries, answering the question about crafts deliveries to Hungary within the framework of joint air company establishment, states the RIA Novosti agency.
Our goal is single - to promote Russian vendor. First of all that is Super Jet, for today it is the main product of civil air craft construction. This concerns Hungary, concerns Armenia, where we discussed this question on Sunday. We agreed to work it out, to formulate it, to capsulate concrete offers together with our colleagues," he added.
To note, Armenia once has already received SSJ-100 crafts, but was made to refuse of those. ArmAvia (RA National carrier of Armenia, faced bankruptcy in 2013), confirmed the rejection of buying the second Sukhoj Super Jet -100 in July 2012. A well informed source stated that ArmAvia rejected the accept of the second Super jet due to financial problems of the Company. In August 2012 the company returned also the first craft.
First Sukhoj Super Jet was passed to Armenian party in april 2011, it was named Yuri Gagarin. A year later, the president of United Aircraft Construction Company Mikael Poghosyan stated, that Armenian SSJ- 100 performed around 2 000 hours flights, which is a very good result for a new craft.