OREANDA-NEWS. JSC “Aeroflot - Russian Airlines” has signed a contract with Airbus Corporation to purchase five A321 airplanes. All the vehicles will be the newly built ones to be delivered directly from the Airbus production facilities.

Currently Aeroflot’s fleet includes 27 airplanes of A320 family, and before 2010 the company expects to have 55 airplanes of this type in its fleet.

Average daily time in service per single A320 family airplane in Aeroflot is 13 hours.