OREANDA-NEWS. JSC "Aeroflot - Russian Airlines" (MICE: AFLT) and "Boeing" [NYSE: BA] signed a contract for acquisition of 22 new aircrafts Boeing 787 Dreamliner to be supplied within 2014 - 2016.

Under this contract Aeroflot can acquire both В787-8 for 248 passengers and larger В787-9. Engine will be chosen later.

This contract is being signed along with the agreements of Boeing on cooperation with "Ob'edinennaya aviastroitel'naya korporatsiya" (OAK) and SCJC "Grazhdanskiye samolety Sukhogo" for production of the Russian aircraft SSJ -100.