{"id":1091,"date":"2016-04-29T04:36:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T09:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2016-04-29T04:36:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T09:36:36","slug":"delta-orders-cseries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Delta orders CSeries Jets from Bombardier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delta orders CSeries Jets<\/strong> from Bombardier to become the first U.S. based\u00a0launch customer of the new Canadian built airplane.\u00a0Delta Air Lines has\u00a0agreed to buy at least 75 of the new hi-tech aircraft, with\u00a0an option for up to another 50 planes. Delta picked the CS100 model, which is the smallest of the three versions Bombardier offers. The CS100 will seat 108 passengers in a dual class configuration, and up to 133 passengers in single class. Delivery of the new jets are slated to\u00a0begin in 2018, and the deal includes\u00a0conversion rights to the CS300 model. The CS300 model can seat 130 passengers in a dual class configuration, and up to\u00a0160 in an all coach layout.<\/p>\n

Delta orders CSeries Jets, but at what cost?<\/h2>\n

The deal comes not a moment too soon for struggling Bombardier,\u00a0as it represents\u00a0the first major firm order in the last 19 months for the CSeries.\u00a0The company did receive\u00a0a letter of intent from Air Canada for up to 45 of the CS300 model version last February. Bombardier is hoping that\u00a0will be converted into a firm order in the current quarter.\u00a0The\u00a0Air Canada\u00a0commitment does come with a catch, as it gives the airline\u00a0two years to decide on whether or not to finalize that deal. Delivery dates if the Air Canada announcement does\u00a0get converted\u00a0are set for 2019. There are many that speculated the Canadian Government was behind that announcement, as Bombardier is currently relying of funding from the local Quebec Government to stave off possible bankruptcy.\u00a0The CSeries program is $2 billion over its original budget, and more than two years behind schedule. Reports have also suggested that Air Canada will pay as little as\u00a0just $30 million\u00a0per\u00a0plane, a discount of almost 60%\u00a0from the list price of around $72 million.<\/p>\n

With a big order in place from Delta Air Lines, there may\u00a0no longer be any\u00a0urgency for\u00a0the Canadian carrier to\u00a0rush into\u00a0that deal. Delta Air Lines has also\u00a0been very aggressive in the price it has been willing to pay for new and used aircraft. Delta C.E.O.\u00a0Richard H Anderson made waves last October when he suggested that used Boeing 777 aircraft could be acquired for as little as $10 million, a price Boeing has disputed.\u00a0The Delta order is valued at $5.6 billion at\u00a0list prices, but\u00a0we can only guess at how big a\u00a0discount\u00a0the airline was able to negotiate. It has been announced that\u00a0Delta C.E.O.\u00a0Richard H Anderson\u00a0will step down from his post\u00a0this May, but\u00a0will remain with the company as executive chairman of the board.<\/p>\n

(All prices quoted above are in US dollars)<\/p>\n

\"Delta<\/p>\n

Image from\u00a0www.bombardier.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delta orders CSeries Jets from Bombardier to become the first U.S. based\u00a0launch customer of the new Canadian built airplane.\u00a0Delta Air Lines has\u00a0agreed to buy at least 75 of the new hi-tech aircraft, with\u00a0an option for up to another 50 planes. Delta picked the CS100 model, which is the smallest of the three versions Bombardier offers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}