Superjet International Is the Award Winner of the Global Transport Finance (GTF) 2014

On 8 December 2014 SuperJet International (SJI) — joint venture between Finmeccanica-Alenia Aermacchi and Sukhoi Holding — received a special award from the Global Transport Finance in recognition of the most innovative financing transaction and the best contribution to the aviation transport finance industry in 2014.

SuperJet International was awarded on the occasion of the prestigious GTF Annual Award at the historic Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London.

Namely, the SJI transaction was recognized as the "Aircraft Debt Deal of the Year for Latin America" and the Company was also awarded as the "Aircraft Finance Innovator of the Year."

SuperJet International, with the collaboration of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company, developed a noteworthy financing package for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft (SSJ100) through a multilateral export credit guaranteed by Coface, SACE and EXIAR.

With the support of the Export Credit Agencies of three Countries — France, Italy and Russia — and the active cooperation with four banks — Natixis, Deutsch Bank, Intesa San Paolo and VEB — SuperJet International offered to its customer Interjet (Mexico) an outstanding long-term financing for the purchase of the SSJ100 aircraft.

The Mexican airline Interjet ordered 20 SSJ100 aircraft. Up to date 11 SSJ100 have been delivered and financed through this multilateral export credit.

"We are very proud of this outstanding recognition from Global Transport Finance," stated Nazario Cauceglia, CEO of SuperJet International. "It confirms that we are offering not only a super optimized 100-seat aircraft with advanced technology, but we are also capable to propose innovative and attractive financing solutions to our customers."

To date 40 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft have been delivered. The entire fleet logged more than 68.000 flight hours worldwide, with excellent results in terms of dispatch reliability.