Russia's S7 Group has signed a lease agreement with GECAS involving seventeen E170LRs the minutes of the Group's latest board meeting have revealed.
As previously reported by ch-aviation, S7 Airlines (S7, Novosibirsk) has provisionally scheduled its EMB-170 debut for March 26, 2017 with a pair of aircraft to be based at each of Moscow Domodedovo and Novosibirsk. Destinations from the former include Voronezh Chertovitskoye and Nizhny Novgorod Strigino while from the latter they will serve Almaty International (Kazakhstan), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Chita, and Ulan-Ude.
In preparation for their operational debut, Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) earlier this month issued type certificates for both the EMB-170 and the EMB-175 paving the way for their use by Russian operators.
