Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot will buy Airbus A320s and Sukhoi Superjet 100s to upgrade its regional subsidiaries' fleets, Aeroflot General Director Vitaly Savelyev said on Friday.
"Aeroflot prefers Airbus A320s. These planes, which will be used initially on international routes, will partly renew the fleets of our regional daughter companies," Savelyev said.
Aeroflot has also ordered 30 SSJ-100s to replace its existing Tu-134s on internal routes. This year the company is to be supplied with 10 planes, with 12 planes in 2012 and eight planes in 2013.
The company plans to use SSJ-100s mainly on international routes, but they may also serve regional routes.
Meanwhile Russian mid-sized carrier Angara airlines, which operates mainly in Siberia, is to lease 10 short-haul Antonov An-148 passenger planes, the government of the Irkutsk region, where Angara's owner is based, said on its website on Friday.
"A preliminary agreement to lease An-148s for 15 years has been signed. The airline is likely to get three planes at the beginning of next year and will start using them in the second quarter. After that Angara will get another seven planes in the next two years," the Irkutsk administration said.
The new planes will replace An-24s and An-26s.
