Canadian plane manufacturer Bombardier delivered its first CS300, purchased by the Latvian carrier Air Baltic. It marks the company’s long-delayed move from development into commercialization of the new aircraft.
Able to carry up to 160 passengers, the CS300 is the longest of Bombardier’s CSeries jetliners, which were designed to compete with the workhorses of the aviation market, the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.
Air Baltic said it plans to put the first 20 CS300 jetliners it has ordered into service flying between Riga and Amsterdam.
Bombardier is on track to overcome delays in shipments of engines for the CSeries by the end of next year, according to the head of the company’s commercial aircraft unit. “It’s going to take mostly through 2017 to get right back on track,” said Fred Cromer, Bombardier’s commercial aircraft president, in Mirabel, Quebec. “We’re still in the same delivery guidance we had for 2017, so it’s manageable.”
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