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Article: Company Watch - Bombardier.
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- AirGuide Business
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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New York (AirGuideBusiness - Company Watch) Sep 13, 2009
It has been about five years since Bombardier sold a commercial aircraft into China, but the Canadian aircraft-maker is hoping its newest product, the Bombardier CSeries, will change all that. Bombardier stresses that the 110/130-seat CSeries is not a regional aircraft per se and that the CSeries is competing for sales against regional jets as well as against Airbus A320-family aircraft and Boeing 737s. The airframer's new commercial aircraft programme director Ben Boehm says the CSeries scores because of its lower fuel burn and its range. And, he adds, "70 percent of the materials are brand-new technology ...