On March 27th, 2014, Bombardier announced that Adria Airways signed a firm purchase agreement for two CRJ900 NextGens. Adria Airways has been a Bombardier customer since March 1997. The airline currently operates four CRJ200s, two CRJ900s and two CRJ900 NextGens.
Including Adria Airways’ order, Bombardier has firm orders for 1,814 CRJ Series aircraft, including 341 CRJ900s and CRJ900 NextGens. Worldwide, CRJs are in service with more than 60 airlines and more than 30 customers operate corporate variants of the aircraft. CRJs operate in over 50 countries on six continents. On average a CRJ takes off every 10 seconds somewhere in the world. CRJ Series aircraft have carried more than 1.4 billion passengers and have logged more than 38 million flight hours and over 32 million takeoffs and landings.