The Russian Transport Ministry has requested Boeing, the world's top aerospace company, to deliver Boeing 787 Dreamliners to the country's flagship carrier Aeroflot two years ahead of schedule by 2014, Minister Igor Levitin said on Thursday.
"I have met with the company`s president and asked him to change the deadline. It was moved to 2016 and we are asking to bring it forward to 2014," Levitin told reporters.
The planes are needed for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games which will take place in the city of Sochi in the south of Russia. "We want the official carrier of the Olympic Games to use the planes during the Games," he said without specifying the number of planes.
Aeroflot General Director Vitaly Savelyev has said that the company planned to get 22 Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes to upgrade the company's fleet.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is Boeing's new project. The new plane can carry 250-300 passengers at a distance of 16,299 kilometers.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, July 15 (RIA Novosti)
