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Old Jun 16, 2009 | 8:40 am
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apostol
 
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Malév to buy 30 aircraft for USD 1 bn

Hungary Malév to buy 30 SSJ-100 aircraft for USD 1 bn

see the link to the announcement in Paris yesterday:
http://www.portfolio.hu/en/cikkek.tdp?k=2&i=17819

who earth would finance this deal for what is reportedly a pretty financially troubled airline? Why would Malev unload its perfectly fine fleet of 737s to make this happen? The only thing I can figure is it is the airline's Russian backers helping their 'friends' at SuperJet. (half-owned by Russia's Sukhoi).
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