Pobeda (a 100% subsidiary of Aeroflot) plans to buy 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft; the airline has announced a tender for the provision of consulting services to coordinate the transaction. Its conditions should include the possibility of converting the order into more spacious MAX models: Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 or Boeing 737 MAX 10.

Currently, the Pobeda fleet includes 20 Boeing aircraft of the previous generation – Boeing 737-800. Under the contract, four more will be delivered by the end of the year, and six more such airliners will be delivered in the first half of 2019, bringing the airline’s fleet to 30 ships.

List price of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 is $117.1 million, the most spacious version of the Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 (210 seats in a single-class configuration) is $120.2 million, the Boeing 737 MAX 10 (up to 230 passengers) is $129.9 million. MAX – a new re-engined version of the Boeing 737, providing 14% lower fuel consumption, lower noise levels and a higher level of comfort.

With a large order, the price of the aircraft is approximately 50% of the catalog price, so the Pobeda deal could be valued at $1.76–1.95 billion. However, as stated in the documentation, the terms of the deal should provide for its conversion into a leaseback transaction (“ sale-and-leaseback"): upon receipt of the aircraft, the airline immediately sells it to the leasing company, and the latter leases the aircraft to it. Pobeda has already concluded such a deal, with Sberbank Leasing as the lessor.

Pobeda has already ordered 15 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, delivery will begin in the second half of 2019, says a person close to the Aeroflot group , the order can be increased to 30 aircraft. The Kommersant newspaper also wrote about the order for 15 MAX.

Vedomosti is awaiting comments from a representative of Pobeda.

In January–June, the low-cost airline carried 3.18 million passengers, which is the sixth highest figure among Russian airlines.

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Pobeda plans to buy 30 Boeings of the latest generation