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Seamless Start

Bombardier is focusing on site support for C Series Operators and working towards
a production ramp-up to meet delivery targets
By Atul Chandra

BOMBARdIER’S C SERIES IS NOW IN will receive their first CS300 jetliners later in
revenue service with SWISS (CS100) and the year. The delivery of the CS300 to Korean
airBaltic (CS300) and from the look of things, Air will mark the entry of the C Series into
the early entry into service of the first clean- Asia. Bombardier will also obtain Extended-
sheet jetliner design in decades is performing range Twin-engine Operational Performance
well. While the delays and cost overruns from Standards (ETOPS) certification in addition
the early days of the programme are now to gaining steep approach certification for
a distant memory, Bombardier will need to the C Series in 2017. The airframer will also
work hard to attain a quick production ramp- continue work on certifying other options
up and finalise MRO facilities and partners, that will be required by future customers.
all within the next few years. Bombardier has SWISS saw its first three CS100 aircraft
already announced plans to deliver between collectively flying approximately 1,990
30-35 C Series aircraft this year. revenue-generating flights within their first
Presently launch customer SWISS has five months of revenue service, carrying a
taken delivery of five CS100s and airBaltic has total of approximately 193,500 passengers
two CS300 jetliners. Bombardier delivered to 18 destinations including Paris Charles-
an aircraft each to both airlines in the last de-Gaulle, Manchester, Budapest, Prague,
week of December, reaching its target for Brussels and Warsaw. “SWISS is very
delivery of seven C Series airplanes in 2016. C satisfied with the high levels of reliability
Series aircraft deliveries will continue to both that we have achieved with the C Series in
airlines this year and SWISS and Korean Air such a short time,” Sébastien Mullot told
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