There seems to be saturation of capable planes in the circa 90 passanger airliner market. Therese the shiny new Bombardier CRJ700, the Embraer E-Jets,
ACAC ARJ21 and not to mention the usual offerings from Boeing and Airbus.
Perhaps the superjet is just one too many. We all know that of all the companies Airbus and Boeing arent going to be the ones which back down.
Jensy
P.S Even Antanov have shown signs of stretching their 148
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Sukhoi is considering slipping delivery of the Superjet indefinitely. Only one aircraft has been produced so far, and first flight has been slipped
into April, which puts them a minimum of 6 months behind schedule. Aeroflot was expected to take delivery of the first aircraft in November, with a
second in December.
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