Interjet, Mexican airline flying the Russian Sukhoi RRJ95B, has put one of their fleet of 22 into storage, and has officially scrapped two others that had been being used as parts-bins.
The 100-seat Russian-built aircraft, even with the design participation of a range of suppliers such as Boeing, Curtiss-Wright and Honeywell, has been unable to penetrate any meaningful part of the global aviation marketplace. Reportedly, parts and tech support has been a problem for Mexican carrier Interjet.
The image of the airplane wasn’t helped when one of them flew into a mountain on a demonstration flight in Indonesia in 2012.