17 Jun 2015 14:30

Irkut has 175 firm contracts for MS-21

LE BOURGET (France). June 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The firm contract portfolio for new generation commercial airliners MS-21 contains 175 units, Kirill Budayev, vice-president of Irkut Corporation, told reporters on Wednesday.

"We have 175 firm contracts for MS-21, advance payments have been made on all of them. Additionally, we have 98 so-called soft contracts," Budayev said at the air show Le Bourget 2015.

Budayev said the catalogue price of the MS-21 planes is some $85 million, which is less than the price of similar Boeing and Airbus planes.