On 18 September at the Kazan Aircraft Plant after Gorbunov – the branch of the Tupolev Company the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan was present at a ceremony of singing a Memorandum between Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and the SIBIR Airlines (S7) on mutual cooperation in expansion of the SIBIR air fleet, which was signed by the Director General of the UAC Yury Slyusar and the Shareholder of the S7 Group of Companies Vladislav Filev.
The Memorandum envisages joint work in supplying 100 improved commercial planes TU-214 to be used by the Siberian Company.