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This comes when the company has started to buy planes in order to support its air fleet to reinforce the internal flights and answer the increasing demand, Tassili Airlines has bought first four planes from the Canadian company “Bombardier”. The Finance executive manager in Sonatrach, Mr. Ali Rezaiguia, has indicated, yesterday during the ratifying of an agreement to buy four planes from the company Bombardier of a value estimated at 84 millions of dollars, that the operation will open the way to adopt a programme allowing, the next years, to buy 41 planes with one billion dollars, with different capacities of transport including planes with 35 seats, 70 seats to planes with a capacity of 130 seats. The same responsible has affirmed that the price of the plane was fixed at 21 billions the plane; it will not be revised for planes which will be bought the next years. Concerning the four planes of a capacity of 70 seats, for each plane, they will be bought from July for the first plane, then August, September and October for the rest three planes. Ali Rezaiguia has indicated that the company Tassili Airlines is not expecting to buy more planes with high travelling capacities. From his part, the manager of the company Bombardier, Mr. Pierre Beaudoin, has indicated that his company wish to enlarge its relations with Sonatrach by buying more planes, in addition to reinforce its presence in Algeria, adding that his company is aspiring to get other transactions, it has participated in the tender announced by Air Algerie to renew its fleet. S. Yousfi — El-Khabar | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sonatrach looks for a partner for Tassili Airlines