By Bjorn Fehrm
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21July 2016, ©. Leeham Co: Bombardier”s CSeries project has passed one hurdle after another during its development. The last one was the lack of Marquee customers on top of launch customer SWISS. This has now been solved with large orders from Air Canada and Delta Air Lines.
There is one hurdle remaining: what will be the aircraft's reliability when it enters into service (EIS)?. We did the EIS interview with CSeries VP and program manager Rob Dewar only two days before the CS100 aircraft would fly its first operational sectors with Swiss last Friday. This autumn, airBaltic will put the larger CS300 into service.
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Category: Bombardier, CSeries, Delta Air Lines, Pratt & Whitney, Premium
Tags: Air Canada, AirBaltic, Bombardier, CS100, CS300, CSeries, Delta Air Lines, GTF, Pratt & Whitney, Swiss