Bombardier Aerospace announced on December 6th, 2012 that an undisclosed customer in China had signed a purchase agreement for seven CRJ700 NextGen aircraft. The interesting part of this announcement was that Bombardier’s press release indicated that this sale would be a: “… great step in establishing the CRJ700 NextGen aircraft as an excellent special mission aircraft.” …
Category: Fleet Update
Dec 06 2012
Delta places order for 40 CRJ 900NextGens with 30 options
Bombardier Aerospace announced on December 6th, 2012 that Delta Air Lines placed a firm order for 40 CRJ900 NextGen regional aircraft and has taken options on an additional 30 CRJ900 NextGen aircraft. The aircraft will be configured with 76 seats in a two-class cabin and will be operated by Delta Connection carriers to be determined …
Dec 03 2012
Air Astana retires Fokker 50s for Embraer 190s
Air Astana continues its plans to phase out its fleet of Fokker 50 turboprops, with the last two aircraft scheduled to be removed from the airline’s fleet in January 2013. The six aircraft will be replaced by Embraer 190s by the middle of 2013 on a one for one basis. During eight years of service …
Nov 30 2012
Bombardier moves towards high density CSeries variant approval
Bombardier announced that it is continuing the design process for a high density version of the CSeries aircraft in spite of a rejection by Air Asia who was seen as a potential launch customer of the aircraft. Other potential CSeries buyers continue to discuss the 160-seat variant of the CS300 according to Bombardier, making it …