Did You Know Aeroflot Flies US and European Aircraft?

Aeroflot is selling all of its Tupolev jets. And when they are gone, only six of 100 jets in their fleet will be Russian-made — and those six will fly mainly to Havana, Hanoi and some cities inside Russia.

Aeroflot will fly nearly all Boeing and Airbus jets.  This is amazing for a company that once owned nearly every civilian airplane in the entire Soviet Union. But the new Aeroflot wishes to be considered a business airline, and passengers mostly prefer Western aircraft. Russian airplanes have more cramped and noisier in general; Airbus and Boeing aircraft have the reputation of being safer and more comfortable.

But there’s another reason Aeroflot has turned to U.S. and European jets: a very practical reason, and that is fuel consumption. Russian aircraft fuel far more fuel than Western-made aircraft. Aeroflot was losing money on about 40 percent of its routes using Russian-made aircraft.

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