Bombardier charts course for more sales in ’07
Bombardier set a new record for business jet deliveries in its latest financial year, shipping 212 airplanes in the 12 months to January 2007.
Bombardier set a new record for business jet deliveries in its latest financial year, shipping 212 airplanes in the 12 months to January 2007. But the weakness of the U.S. dollar means the Canadian industrial group’s aerospace division, with much of its manufacturing concentrated in Canada and the UK, has some way to go to match industry-best margins.
Those 212 airplanes–71 Learjets, 32 Challenger 604/605s, 55 Challenger 300s, a dozen Challenger 800s and 21 each of the Global Express XRS and Global 5000–brought in $3.9 billion, nearly half the aerospace group’s revenues. The total was nine ahead of the previous record set in 2001, before the delivery graph plummeted to 77 just four years ago.
