Tagged With "CSeries"

  Canadian aerospace company, Bombardier, has developed a new larger series of single aisle aircraft  (its Cseries) designed to compete with the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320, but the aircraft is 2 years behind schedule and its parent company...

  ZiNG Airlines, a start-up airline out of Moncton, Canada, plans on using the locally manufactured Bombardier CS100 jets to compete with Air Canada and WestJet.   ZiNG Founders, Wayne Fernandes and Ben de Mendonca, are planning to...

Bombardier CSeries gets certified Airworthy.

This is very good news for Bombardier! Now we have to see if sales and production keep pace.

I'm rooting for them. Even Airbus admits it's a good plane.

Yes, but on the other hand, Airbus last month declined to make the same sort of investment in it that Quebec just made...and it's not about good plane or not. It's about whether there is really a market for a plane that competes directly with the two most successful sellers in the market, and which are being made by companies that can afford to meet price competition, because their R&D and initial tooling expenses are long since paid off. And for an airline, it's another issue, too. An...

From a free market and consumer choice perspective, I like the idea of another quality plane out there. I don't like two companies in the world having a monopoly on flight, good as their products might be. Time will tell. But continuous delays will definitely kill the Cseries.

Another nail in the coffin for Bombardier ? 14 September 2015 Press Release In a much-anticipated ceremony today in Mobile, Alabama, Airbus inaugurated operations at its first ever U.S. Manufacturing Facility. The plant – which assembles the industry-leading family of A319s, A320s and A321s – is officially open for business, with a skilled team of more than 250 Airbus manufacturing employees now at work on the first U.S.-made Airbus aircraft.

A followup to this story, and some good news for Bombardier. It just received an order for 13 of the CS300 from a Latvian airline, to be delivered in the latter half of 2016. Testing on the CS100 is nearly complete and seems to be going well. Once this testing is complete, the "risky" part of development is done. That, of course, does not mean that a plane becomes a commercial success. More on this story at this link .

Bombardier has orders for 243 of its 603 C Series aircraft, which are facing significant delays after a 2013 maiden flight and cost overruns, with about Can$2 billion more than the Can$3.4 billion initially planned. The French-speaking province of Quebec announced a US$1 billion investment in Bombardier to help the fledgling jetliner program get off the ground after the Canadian company posted a US$4.9 billion third quarter loss. A commercial success will take years of Government funding.

I think the airlines themselves will want increased competition in plane manufacturing and will be willing to order if Bombardier can get the backing and is looking to get into commercial for the long term, China's making a go of plane manufacturing too and they have the backing.

I wish them success. Canada could use another airline, especially true if ZiNG plans on running as a discounter. I agree with their sentiment that WestJet has lost its way. I've no problem with what planes are used by either company, but their focus on customer service has dropped greatly in the past decade.

It's very hard to start an airline today and ZiNG has got a tough road ahead to launch their airline. But they do raise some interesting arguments for using the Bombardier CS100 and not using hub cities. Watch their You Tube Video: