Last week saw the usual excellent presentations from the industry was presented at ISTAT Americas 2017, an annual event of the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading, 5-7 March. A key takeaway for us what the focus Airbus and Boeing…
December has been a truly eventful month for both Bombardier’s CSeries program and airBaltic, the CS300 launch operator. Earlier this week, the CS300 has received its type validation by the FAA (adding to the ones that it already had from Transport Canada and…
Bombardier’s CS300, the larger of the two CSeries variants, successfully entered revenue service with airBaltic earlier today. The first flight was from Riga to Amsterdam, and carried 120 passengers. AirBaltic has configured its aircraft in a 145 seat two-class configuration.…
How far can it really go? Bombardier specs say the CS300 can fly 3,300NM. That is a good distance for a small aircraft. Right now BBA508, a CS300, is on its way from Wichita, Kansas to Keflavik in Iceland –…
airBaltic and consortium partners Quovadis and Latvijas Gaisa Satiksme launched a project under the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE) to operate Europe’s first green flights for turboprops. The AMBER (Arrival Modernization for Better Efficiency in Riga) project will…
In an announcement that had leaked and therefore brought the press out in droves – we have never seen the Bombardier show Igloo so full – airBaltic announced its order for 10+10 CS300s. The first video is of the event…