Swissair A320's For Us?

[700UW]

Here is part of the press release, seems you were right on the money Jim.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040719/airshow_bombardier_2.html

Bombardier says to decide on new jet in early 2005

Bombardier said a year-long feasibility study showed strong interest in a 100- to 150-seat jet and it was talking to potential customers in North America, Europe and Asia.

The new plane would represent the first foray by the Montreal-based company onto the turf of big jet makers Boeing (NYSE:BA - News) and Airbus (Paris:EAD.PA - News). Bombardier hopes it will be at least 15 percent more efficient than similar aircraft.

The company said the market for 100- to 150-seat passenger jets totalled an estimated $250 billion over the next 20 years, or about 13 percent of the overall

 

[BoeingBoy]

Thanks, 700UW. IIRC, the AWST article I say a few months ago mentioned that they were hoping to come up with a design that was 10-15% more efficient than current generation planes in that size range - sort of a mini-7E7 concept. Additionally, the guy heading up the program (study?) was in charge of the 737NG program at Boeing (or lead engineer or something like that)

Jim

 

[mweiss]

Ya gotta wonder why Boeing never decided to go after the "mini 7E7 market."

 

[BoeingBoy]

Pure speculation....

The fairly recent cost of developing the triple-7. Have they sold enough of them to recoup the development cost? Plus, the 737NG was a fairly cost-effective way to produce a competitor to the A320 series.

Jim

 

[BoeingBoy]

Furloughedagain,

Somehow I missed your earlier post - " sooo... why not eliminate the "Express" classification entirely. Bring EVERYTHING in-house from the Dash-8s to the A330s."

Believe me, if I could be czar for a day that's what I would do. Well, on second thought, keep "Express" from a customer perspective so they'll know it's a smaller plane with no F/C. Otherwise, I agree with everything you said.

Jim

 

[BoeingBoy]

And if anyone is interested in Bombardier's plans for a new model, here is a pretty good article.

Article

Jim

 

[to much time to quit]

The transformation plan calls for 320 mainline jets.

At the June 17 meeting between Bruce Lakefield and the pilots, the CEO said he was going to talk with the Airbus senior vice president of sales for North America the next day on US Airways obtaining A320 family deliveries beginning in 2005.

The company has been and continues to seek 90-seat RJ scope relief.

Regards,

USA320Pilot

You forgot to add thats only if the iam caves in and rolls over for the corporate liars.

 

[funguy2]

Its nice to hear that the transformation plan includes growth...

Unfortunately, first profits must be acheived... And US Airways hasn't done it yet... Right now, US Airways has lots of aircraft which are producing loses, which could presumably be reallocated to profitable markets.

As it stands now, US Airways is more likely to default on its ATSB loan (again), or have the threat of default force an asset sale or some other "something" to happen, than they are to be financing new aircraft...

US Airways will have to show some sustained profitability before it can even afford to finance those already firm Airbii, let alone new orders. Fortunately for US Aiways, Airbus has a couple of growing customers... JetBlue and America West, so it can afford the delay in deliveries to US Airways. However, whether or not US Airways is around to get those airplanes is another question altogether.