The Azerbaijani State Concern AZAL is going to acquire several airliners of Aerospatiale French ATR next year, Trend has been informed at the government. The company has reached initial agreement for acquisition of six 40-50-seat airplanes to realize air flights within the country.
Presently the government is considering the possibilities of financing the purchase of the airplanes that will make approximately $90 mln.
The French airplanes are more effective than other airplanes of this class in two times. At the same time, Azerbaijan has not officially refused to acquire airplanes from Ukraine, one of which sustained crash in December of last year. It can occur after the announcement of official conclusion on the reasons of jet crash.
Till the definition of the reasons of the crash, AZAL stopped to purchase and exploit airplanes РђN-140-100. The РђN-140-100 airplanes were acquired on base of the contract signed between AZAL and Kharkov State Aviation Enterprise on July 8, 2004.