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Engines will ultimately drive C Series outcome

The key to Bombardier’s still-pending decision on whether to go ahead with a $2 billion-plus investment in its projected C Series 110/130-seat regional air

By Bernard Fitzsimons

June 12, 2007

The key to Bombardier’s still-pending decision on whether to go ahead with a $2 billion-plus investment in its projected C Series 110/130-seat regional airliner family appears to rest with the engine manufacturers.

Gary Scott, president of aircraft services and new commercial aircraft, said in one of a series of pre-show briefings given by Bombardier in Belfast last month that since the company pulled back the C Series development throttles at the beginning of last year it had made substantial progress in evolving the design. But the additional improvement promised by the new engines that should be available in 2013 is too great to pass up, and that has become the new target date for service entry.

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