Aeroflot-Boeing Talks Stalled
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Talks on a multibillion-dollar deal for Russian state flag carrier Aeroflot to buy 22 Boeing 787s are on hold, and frosty relations between Russia and the United States could be to blame, a Russian airline official said yesterday. Aviation analysts have valued the Boeing order at $2.5 billion. Aeroflot management last year asked the government, the company’s controlling shareholder, to approve a deal to upgrade its longrange fleet by buying 22 Boeing 787s and an equal number of Airbus A350s. The chief executive, Valery Okulov, said later that no permission had been received and a deadline for the deal had been missed, though a Boeing spokeswoman said talks were continuing.
