Bombardier Confident Of CSeries Success

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft’s top salesman is defending the manufacturer’s CSeries program, arguing that the program’s capacity to build 220 of the aircraft in the first three years of production should be acknowledged when comparisons are made with sales of Airbus’s A320NEO or Boeing’s 737 MAX. The CSeries’ sale performance has been criticized as lackluster against those booked by Airbus and Boeing, and lessors in particular are wary that the Canadian manufacturer is unable to achieve the critical mass to support a secondary market. But speaking at ISTAT Asia conference yesterday in Singapore, Bombardier Senior VP Commercial Chet Fuller told the audience that by the end of 2013 the company should have 20-30 CSeries customers and 40 by December 2015 ...