Chinese private aviation firm O-Bay Aircraft has placed an order for 100 Sukhoi Superjets.
Executives from the company confirmed the news, according to a Reuters report (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/ ... 0N20140325).
The deal is worth $3.5 billion and represents the largest order for the Russian designed airplane since it was first hatched in 2000.
With also a possible Sukhoi Assembly Line in China in the Zhengzhou city, Henan province according to a executive, who declined to be named.
I doubt these 100 units to be all delivered... They already now cannot speed up production and reach a descent production rate. If they set-up a factory in China, as stated, it will take them ages as well to get that done.
The Sukhoi Superjet is not a bad product, it is a pitty it suffers under the bureaucratic and corrupt way Russia is run. I wouldn't mind seeing more of these, I do like this regional jet...
This is good news in fact.
More competition - more choice.
We as Europeans do not have to complain that there could be set up an assembly line in China. We could have invited Sukhoi to form a joint venture in Europe as well.
I contradict the above doubt about the project. The Chinese order + production partnership is just an advantage for this project.
Delivery will even speed up. I have seen enough in China. While we here in Europe strangle potential investments with uncountable regulations, it is set up very quickly in China once the order "go" has been given.
