Asian airlines start flying Sukhoi Superjets
Two Asian airlines have launched the first flights using their new Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) aircraft.
Lao Central Airlines recently put its SSJ-100 into service on the route between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, in northern Laos. Meanwhile in Indonesia, Sky Aviation has started operating the regional jet on services between Sulawesi’s largest city Makassar, and Sorong, in the province of West Papua.
These flights weren’t the aircraft’s first commercial flights in Asia however; Russia’s Yakutia Airlines has already flown the SSJ-100 into China, on the route from Yakutsk to Harbin.
Sky Aviation has ordered 12 SSJ-100s and operates the aircraft with 87 seats in two classes, while Lao Central Airlines has ordered three of the new aircraft and has equipped them with 93 seats in two classes.
Sukhoi has taken 234 orders for the SSJ-100, but has only delivered 14.