Airbus has begun production of the A220 at its facility in Mobile, Alabama. The former Bombardier C Series is now a majority US content airplane assembled in the United States, and not subject to international trade issues, which Boeing had…
Airbus provided this PR today: “An Airbus A220-300 flight test aircraft will visit six Asian destinations as part of a demonstration tour across the region. After a stopover at Seoul’s Incheon Airport the aircraft heads to Yangon (Myanmar), the first…
Today Airbus undertook its reveal of their new single aisle aircraft, formally known as the C Series, henceforth known as the A220. The two models have gone from CS100 to A220-100 and CS300 to A220-300. There was a pre-reveal briefing.…
The Airbus announcement is here. Bombardier announcement is here. The table is a summary of the deal as reported by each firm. The C Series program goes forward with Airbus running marketing and also exploiting its supply chain critical mass. …
Bombardier’s turnaround now has the company looking squarely at the future, as evidenced by the introduction of the Global 5500 and Global 6500 business jets and a substantial re-order for C Series aircraft by airBaltic, an existing operator. Momentum appears…
Today Airbus announced that this Himalayan airline has ordered an A320neo (LEAP). The airline also has three A319s in service. this airline operates in a challenging environment as the image below shows. Airbus notes the “CFM Leap-1A26E1 engines optimized for…