Aeroflot keeping mum on choice

Published 9:00 pm Thursday, January 26, 2006

News agencies in Russia report that Aeroflot has decided on the winner of a bid for about two dozen mid-size jets and will announce who that is when it signs the contracts in March.

RIA Novosti http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060126/43201948.html reports that…

Key Quote: “General Director Valery Akulov said the company had finished reviewing bids, and intended to announce the results and sign the contacts simultaneously. “

And according to Interfax, http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/finances/26.html?id_issue=11455133 …

Key Quote: “‘The tender will be finalized with the signing of a contract and we expect this to happen in the middle of March,’ (Akulov) said.”

Again, staring at the sludge from this morning’s coffee, I predict that the Seahawks will beat the Stealers 24-10…

Ooops, wrong blog.

No, as I said yesterday, my hunch is that Boeing has won this bid. And you can take that and $1.52 to my neighborhood Starbucks and get a tall drip, no room.