CSeries completes Euro tour

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has reached another milestone for the all-new C-Series with the successful completion of the aircraft's European route-proving exercises. Using a Dash-100 model painted in the company house colours, a progamme was conducted within the network of SWISS and included more than 30 city-pair flights in European cities over a three-week long period.

The route-proving aircraft was fully configured as a passenger jetliner and stops included European cities such a Brussels, Vienna, Budapest, Paris, Milan, Manchester and Warsaw.

The aircraft conducted flights using typical airline flight routeings and operational procedures but with no passengers on board. The flights provided data about the C Series aircraft's performance in a typical airline schedule to and from different airports.

Airfield performance, landings, airport turnarounds and on-ground operations are some of the important characteristics that were observed. Bombardier said the results are aligned with previous observations and confirm that the C Series aircraft is meeting or exceeding original targets.

The European route-proving programme followed one conducted last year across North America that included more than 35 cities.

Hot on the news of the successful tour, Latvian airline airBaltic, the first operator of Dash 300 model, confirmed that its initial aircraft is now well down the production line, with the airline taking delivery in the second half of 2016.   www.bombardier.com

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