Who's the potential buyer of the C-Series?

[PBRstreetgang]

Nope. SkyWest agreed to sell their 26% stake in Trip a few months back.

Maybe they are for Meloveyoulongtime Air.

 

[rjacobs]

Meloveyoulongtime Air.

Where were you when we had the name the airline contest after surejet flopped?

 

[A-10_JetMech]

Who cares who orders them. Their aircraft are garbage. Flaps problems on the 200, Slats on the 900. Any other issues feel free to add.

 

[Ops check good]

Who cares who orders them. Their aircraft are garbage. Flaps problems on the 200, Slats on the 900. Any other issues feel free to add.

Sure they have problems, all A/C do. Atleast BBD learns from mistakes. The 200 flaps fail in cold, TR's fail regularly and APU's run great until they grenade. All of that is fixed on the 700/900 which only has a chronic issue with "duct mon" faults. I would hardly call them garbage, I have seen much worse in my career.

 

[johnsonrod]

My bet is TACA (aka Take A Chance Airlines) or LAN. Those airlines have several partner airlines (equity stakes) in various Latin American countries that could use them.

I've read a lot about the C-Series and it will be a great airplane. Clean sheet design with Collins ProLine Fusion, FBW sidesticks and dual HUDs up front and very comfortable for pax with big baggage bins.

Watch this Bombardier C-Series marketing video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3kO06ahlEs


Hoping we don't see it in the regional ranks for the smaller version (CS100) - I'd rather see them at a legacy to fill the 100-120 seat gap. I presume Republic will use them for Frontier - not sure how that will work (replace E190s). Delta's purchase of AirTran's 717s means probably no C-Series for them... Too bad. Hoping United or AMR/USAair orders the airplane. We'll probably see them in Air Canada colors since AC is not happy with the Embraers. Too bad we won't see the first C-Series delivered until 2014...