Bombardier’s newly constituted board of directors last month gave approval to the company’s commercial airplane division to offer the C Series line of single-aisle jets to potential customers, marking the start of the company’s foray into the major airline market. The new division, led by former Boeing executive Gary Scott, must now demonstrate that it can seize enough business for single-aisle jets from a market long dominated by Boeing and Airbus.
The company has not decided on the location of a planned $200 million assembly site but has narrowed the search to the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
“In the C Series status report presented to board members, Bombardier Aerospace demon- strated the significant progress made in the evaluation of the aircraft configuration and performance, the strong market interest for the C Series as well as the overall business plan,” said Bombardier Aerospace president and COO Pierre Beaudoin. “We will now offer sales proposals to potential customers and finalize sales and partnership commitments before returning to the board to request program launch and recommend the final assembly site location.”
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