johnsonrod
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Obviously Bombardier has fumbled the ball big time with the CS100 and CS300 so late in their development. That said, the new CS300 (125 seat version) is "scheduled" to fly for the first time shortly and the 100-seat CS100 has accumulated more than 1,000 flight test hours. Again, late in the game.
Given that Republic will not be using their order for 40 CS300s due to scope violations, who do you think will scoop them up? UAL? DAL? Frontier is expanding so fast with new routes, maybe they could use the CS300 as was originally intended... Personally, I think the CS300 would fit in well between the 717 and the A320/737-800 at Delta.
Here's the CS300 update video from Bombardier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtYkx_Vi7lY
Even though fuel costs have gone down, I thought this efficiency/CASM comparison chart was interesting:
Given that Republic will not be using their order for 40 CS300s due to scope violations, who do you think will scoop them up? UAL? DAL? Frontier is expanding so fast with new routes, maybe they could use the CS300 as was originally intended... Personally, I think the CS300 would fit in well between the 717 and the A320/737-800 at Delta.
Here's the CS300 update video from Bombardier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtYkx_Vi7lY
Even though fuel costs have gone down, I thought this efficiency/CASM comparison chart was interesting: