With just over three weeks until its end-of-year target, Bombardier is in the "final stages" of achieving type certification from the Canadian authorities for the first variant of its CSeries family, the CS100.
"We are on track for certification this year," Ryan DeBrusk, vice-president of commercial aircraft sales, said at a media luncheon in London on 8 December. "Watch this space."
DeBrusk says the 120-seat aircraft has completed route proving flights "throughout North America", and visited "over 40" city pairs, with 100% dispatch reliability. "It is meeting all its performance targets," he adds.
The Canadian airframer plans to deliver the first CS100 to launch customer Swiss International Air Lines in the first half of 2016.
Bombardier has notched up 243 firm orders for the two variants of the CSeries and is confident that certification will give a boost to so-far sluggish sales.
"We expect certification to translate into orders, although we are not going to go into any more detail," he says.
Source: Cirium Dashboard
