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The
Moscow-based airline, Atlant-Soyuz has been confirmed as the customer of four Next
Generation Boeing 737-700s. The order, worth $249 million at 2007 list prices, was listed as
unidentified on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website in 2006 and is accounted for in
the 2006 order totals.
Atlant-Soyuz is one of the largest charter carriers in Russia. Currently the airline offers scheduled
domestic and international charter flights from its base airport, Moscow's Vnukovo International
Airport. Atlant-Soyuz is an official carrier for the Government of Moscow.
"The key factors in our purchase decision were the 737-700's superior range, enhanced further for
Atlant-Soyuz with efficiency-enhancing Blended Winglets, and its industry-leading dispatch
reliability," said Valery Menitsky, chairman of the board of directors of
Atlant-Soyuz.
Atlant-Soyuz
also recently added two leased 737 Classic airplanes to its fleet.
More than 100 customers have ordered more than 4,000 Next-Generation
737s and Boeing has unfulfilled orders of the plane type in excess of 1,650 airplanes worth more than $118 billion at current list prices.
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