PAS Tuesday
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Premium #175 – The Significance of Bombardier’s CSeries Performance Improvements
Bombardier today at the Paris Air Show announced that the C Series will meet or exceed all of its initial targets at entry into service – including an 11.9% increase in range from 2,950 to 3,300NM for both models. Fuel…
PAS Monday
We caught a few presentations on video. Bombardier’s C Series numbers from Rob Dewer. The team was all smiles when they could tell the world that they have beaten their brochure numbers. Asking around we could find nobody who could…
A320neo LEAP hours build
Take a look at the LEAP flight test hours on the neo through the start of June. As of COB yesterday the program has accumulated nearly 14 hours of block time and just over 8 hours of flight time. As…
Premium #174 – How the CS500 Might Impact the Narrow-Body Market
With the CS100 and CS300 being shown at Paris next week, the question of what’s next has arisen at Bombardier. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal talked about the possibility of a CS500, which the industry rumor mill…
Skymark, Airbus and the A380
Skymark is bankrupt and is a case study for an airline’s eyes being too big for its stomach. We were not alone in finding this airline’s order of A380s – especially six of them – to be over the top.…