Surgut – The open tender results on supplies of five turbo-prop regional aircraft each on 35-60 seats will be announced on 27 July of this year. It is a date of the tender commission meeting.

As it was informed earlier, the tender commission selected companies, which continued participation in open tender on supplies of five turbo-prop regional aircraft at the previous meeting (May 14).

On the base of packages of tender participants concerning supplies of five jets and advices of attracted consultants Ernst&Young and Denton Wilde Sapte (UK) the tender commission decided to allow to the final tender stage two types of aircrafts DASH-8 (the Canadian company Bombardier) and ATR-42 (French-based ATR, the Irish leasing company Magellan Air).

As reported earlier, UTair announced an open tender on supplies (leasing) of five regional aircraft with about 35 to 60 passenger seats each on October 25, 2003.