CRJ starts with a new cabin out of the crisis
Bombardier took less and less orders for the regional jet CRJ. However, since may it's back up thanks to bigger Windows and more space for hand Luggage.
Since then, Bombardier has delivered the C-Series, Airbus, are the two remaining air-travel-stand legs of the Canadians is all the more important: the Turboprop-plane of the Q-Series and regional jets CRJ-Series. Especially the CRJ program is not ran in the last few years.
Open purchase orders for CRJ-copies in the three-digit area was able to present Bombardier for the last Time in mid-2014. 106 the regional plane, the manufacturer had to build at that time. Since then, the trend went downward. The low point was reached at the end of March 2018, with open Orders for 36 aircraft.
A new customer in Africa
However, the second quarter of 2018 brought improvement. At the beginning of may has ordered American Airlines 15 CRJ900 and secured in addition the Option on 15 more of the Jets. In June, Delta Air Lines 20 CRJ900 ordered then. It is a calculated five deliveries in the second quarter, as well as deletions of at least one smaller Order, could Bombardier to show the end of June, open purchase orders for 60 Canadair Regional Jets. For the last Time, the aircraft manufacturer had reached this value at the end of September 2016.
Delta and American will be the first customers who receive their CRJ with the so-called Atmosphère Cabin. The new cabin is to convince the customers with larger hand Luggage compartments, larger Windows and LED lighting. And this seems to work: in mid-July, Bombardier with the Uganda National Airlines presented the next customer. The Airline Start-up wants to start on long-haul routes with two Airbus A330-800 and on a regional level with four CRJ900. The canadian aircraft manufacturer presented the Airline as "the first operator of the new CRJ Series Atmosphère Cabin in Africa".
Emissions are on the rise for the coming year
His chief financial officer John Di Bert indicated already that they would raise in the coming year, the rate of production of the CRJ. The distribution between the models is clear: 53 CRJ900 will need to build Bombardier, according to the end of June and ship to: 15 for American, 20 for Delta, 10 for CIB Leasing, two for China Express and acht8 for an anonymous customer. This is not called the buyer also receives a CRJ700. Air Nostrum also six copies of the CRJ1000.
The CRJ Series developed by the canadian manufacturer Canadair, which was acquired after the privatisation in 1986 by Bombardier. The drivers behind the programme, Lufthansa was. the was also a customer. The first flight of the first Canadair Regional Jet took place in 1991. Since then, more than 1800 pieces of different variants of the aircraft were ordered family.