Azeri airline gets new Boeing passenger plane
BAKU – Azerbaijan’s state airline AzAL received a new 198-seat Boeing 767-300ER passenger plane on Thursday under a contract signed with US giant Boeing.
According to Maharram Safarli, the company’s spokesman, another such plane will be brought to the country in the first half of 2012.
"The new Boeing aircraft will be used on flights to Prague, London, Tel-Aviv, Aberdeen, Paris and other cities," he said.
Safarli said that from December 2010 to February 2011, AzAL delivered two 174-seat Airbus 319 aircraft and four Airbus 320 aircraft to Azerbaijan.
He said that from 2014, the Azerbaijani airline plans to purchase two Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes, which will allow to launch new direct flights to faraway cities in the Americas and other continents.
According to the contract signed with Boeing, AzAL will replace the two purchased Boeing 737 Next Generation planes with one Boeing 767-300ER aircraft and two Boeing 767 freighters. Also, AzAL will buy five more planes, including a Boeing 767-300ER plane, two Boeing 737 and two Boeing 787-8 models.
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