Manufacturers of regional aircrafts like Embraer and Bombardier are taking profit of a market gap left open by Airbus and Boeing

Manufacturers of regional aircrafts like Embraer and Bombardier are taking profit of a market gap left open by Airbus and Boeing: planes meant for feeder flights. With the advent of ever lager aircrafts like the Airbus 380 which require investments in airports,

Aviation Week analyses the upcoming “narrow-bodies battle” as plane manufacturers are considering future product strategies.

Aviation Week analyses the upcoming “narrow-bodies battle” as plane manufacturers are considering future product strategies. Airbus and Boeing face “increasingly tough production decisions” as they try to elaborate strategies for the end of the next decade. With the introduction of Bombardier’s C-Series,

Bombardier Learjet 85 Aircraft Composite Structure Manufacturing to Take Place at Querétaro Facility

Today, corporate aviation leader Bombardier announced its facility in Querétaro, Mexico will manufacture the composite structure for its all-new, state-of-the-art Learjet 85 business jet. The Querétaro site will also manufacture the electrical harness and perform sub-assembly systems installation.

Bombardier won a record order for business jets at the Ebace show

Bombardier said yesterday that it had won a record order for business jets at the Ebace show in Geneva. Swiss group VistaJet, indeed, ordered 35 business jets from the Canadian manufacturer –including 11 Challenger 605s, 13 Learjet 60XRs and 11 Learjet 85s-

Growing appeal of Mexico for European aerospace manufacturers

Les Echos investigates the growing appeal of Mexico particularly for European aerospace manufacturers and their suppliers, which see in this dollar-based country a solution to the threat of the weak US currency over their competitiveness. The state of Queretaro, 200km north of Mexico City, has become the new global aeronautics ‘El Dorado’.

“Insolent health” and “outstanding dynamism” of business aviation.

Air & Cosmos devotes a special report to the “insolent health” and “outstanding dynamism” of business aviation. The year 2007 was exceptional for the business aviation industry: new programmes, delivery growth, order highs and forays into new markets. Indeed, while strengthening its foothold in the US and Europe, business aviation made an amazing entry into younger markets like Russia, India, the Middle-East and Asia-Pacific.

Bombardier Aerospace To Play Major Role In Exploring Future Wing Technologies

Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast today announced its involvement in a UK national research programme aimed at developing new composite wing technologies that will reduce the environmental impact of future aircraft.
The £103 million three-year Next Generation Composite Wing (NGCW) programme involves 16 leading organisations, both industrial companies and research bodies, as well as economic development agencies including Invest Northern Ireland.

Bombardier Aerospace Selects Pratt & Whitney Canada’s Pw307b Engine To Power Its All-Composite Learjet 85 Aircraft

Bombardier Aerospace announced its all-composite Learjet 85 aircraft – the next generation in Learjet excellence – will be powered by
Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW307B engines. The Learjet manufacturer also announced it selected Innovative Power Solutions’ (IPS) advanced DC Brushless Starter/Generator (BS/G) System as the engine starter solution for the new midsize jet.

Next-Generation Bombardier Challenger 605 Jets To Join Flexjet Fleet

Challenger 605 jets are among 24 new aircraft to enter service with Flexjet in 2008
Introduction of new jets every year gives Flexjet one of the youngest fractional jet ownership fleets
Bombardier Flexjet, the fractional business jet ownership program of Bombardier Aerospace, has announced the induction of Bombardier’s new Challenger 605 jets into the Flexjet fractional fleet.
“We are pleased to offer our customers the ultimate fractional jet ownership experience with the introduction of the Challenger 605 business jet, which provides superior wide-cabin comfort, technology, flexibility and productivity,” said Mike McQuay, president, Bombardier Flexjet.

Bombardier Surpasses Milestone 1,500th CRJ Regional Jet Delivery

Bombardier Aerospace announced that the CRJ Series program has celebrated and exceeded its 1,500th delivery milestone. The 1,500th aircraft, a CRJ900 NextGen model, was handed over to Northwest Airlines in March, 2008, and will be operated by Mesaba Airlines, a Northwest Airlink carrier.
On Friday, April 18, the milestone was celebrated during the delivery of another CRJ900 NextGen regional jet to Northwest Airlines, at Bombardier’s manufacturing facility at Mirabel, Quebec. The CRJ900 NextGen aircraft delivered during the ceremony was accepted by Dan McDonald, Vice-President, Fleet Planning and Strategy, Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Northwest Airlines has ordered 56 CRJ200, 86 CRJ440 and 36 CRJ900 NextGen airliners.

Airbus will raise its Research and Technology spending by 25 % as early as this year,

in an effort to boost the development of env ironmental-friendly technology. Spanish daily ABC reports that Airbus makes it a priority to reduce emissions. “Technology is and will always be the key for progress”, the plane maker is cited as saying. Though it insists on the fact air transport only generates 2 % of worldwide CO2 emissions, Airbus agrees that the sector must do “everything possible” to improve its ecological records. In a separate report, Financial Times echoes that the aviation industry is making efforts to “clean up”. The British daily cites Airbus estimates that passenger traffic increases 5 % a year, which will lead to demand for 24,000 new aircraft by 2026.

The supremacy of Airbus and Boeing on the single-aisle aircraft market could bethreatened,

analyses Financial Times Deutschland. New suppliers are emerging in thishighly lucrative aircraft segment. While the successful A320 and 737 have won record ordersover the years, Airbus and Boeing will be busy manufacturing and delivering these aircraft forthe coming years. This leaves room for challengers, such as Canada’s Bombardier, to unveilnew models with more fuel-efficient technologies. These companies bet on the assumptionthat ever-increasing oil prices may force airlines to drop their long-time aircraft suppliers. Yet,according to an Airbus spokesperson, no groundbreaking technologies in terms of emissioncuts and higher efficiency can be expected until the end of the decade.
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The landscape of regional aviation is getting more complex,

with the arrival of newcompetitors from Japan, China or Russia. The three established players –Bombardier,Embraer and ATR- see their order books grow and market opportunities develop in the US,Europe and, above all, Asia-Pacific. The industry estimates that 10 % of global demand forregional aircraft will come from China within 20 years. This is why Chinese manufacturer AvicI is pushing into this segment, with its ARJ 21, in an effort to fulfil the country’s needs itself.Russia, with its SuperJet 100, and more recently Japan, with its MRJ, are pursuing the samestrategy.
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