OREANDA-NEWS. On the International Aerospace Show in Le Bourget JSC “Aeroflot – Russian Airlines” has signed a contract with Airbus Corporation to purchase 22 A350 airplanes.

According contractual terms the airplanes purchased will be delivered between 2014 through 2017.

Aeroflot was the first Russian and CIS company to operate Airbus planes in 1992. 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.