Aircraft
Western 100-seaters meet their match
Airlines around the world in the market for equipment to serve the emerging 100-seat sector have no fewer than five choices to evaluate here at the Paris A

Airlines around the world in the market for equipment to serve the emerging 100-seat sector have no fewer than five choices to evaluate here at the Paris Air Show this week. Bombardier with its new C Series and Embraer with the 190/195 family enjoy a high profile, but alternative programs conceived farther east won’t easily let the Western airframers steal the show. The non-Western contenders are Antonov of Ukraine, with its An-148 twinjet, Aviation Industries of China with the ARJ-21 and the Sukhoi-led Russian Regional Jet.

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