Bralo20 wrote:They'd better start selling some, otherwise it could be a quick ending story
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With 177 firm orders, it isn't the best selling aircraft around. But they do have a significant amount of options and some conditional orders (including Porter Airlines, who is waiting for confirmation they will be able to operat a jet from Toronto City which currently only allows (turbo)props). Once these aircraft start flying and Bombardier can show real life data, I think more airlines will jump on it.
We are in a time that there are still quite some new E190/E195's and some CRJ-1000's flying around and more on order, many airlines are not in a rush to order the CS100 yet. The CS300 is attractive (the best selling of the two), but overlaps with the A319 on a lot of missions. The A319 will see a neo follow up, but there are only very few airlines ordering it (easyJet will continue the transition to the A320(neo)). Many older A319's will come to the market, making them attractive for airlines that don't have the money to buy or lease brand new CS300's. But for several airlines the CS300 still makes a lot of sense.
So they took a slow start in sales, but I do believe there's a huge market out there for these CSeries.