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    The stakes were high. It doesn’t happen often that a bunch of CEOs of some of the world’s most important airlines fly on one and the same aircraft. And unlike in other industries, where the top brass can never travel together in the air, the airline industry rather demonstrates its full confidence in an aircraft that is not in commercial service yet.

    Such was the setting of flight BBA505 from Dublin to Zurich on June 3. As SWISS is the launch customer for the long-delayed Canadian twin jet, for the first time attempting to challenge Airbus and Boeing in their bread-and-butter market of 120-160 seaters, this was the perfect opportunity for Bombardier. The airline industry leaders had gathered this past week in the Irish capital for their annual meeting in the framework of IATA, followed by a Chief Executive Board meeting of all Star Alliance member airlines in Switzerland.

    SWISS celebrates its tenth year as a Star member, and at the same time will operate the world premiere of this first all-new passenger jet in this category in decades on July 15. Belittled by Airbus salesman John Leahy only this week as “that cute little aircraft”, Bombardier called this special flight rightly “the most important take-off in the history of the CSeries.” Even after the recent mega-order by Delta Air Lines, Bombardier desperately needs to build trust and confidence in its product to attract more takers.



    What is striking is the difference between the pretty compact looks of the aircraft from the outside, almost like a regional jet, and it’s wide-body interior appearance. It comes in a unique 2-3 seat layout in every row, unlike Embraer’s 2-2 or Airbus and Boeing types’ 3-3 configuration. The cabin width of the CSeries is 3,28m, while an A320, with one seat extra per row, measures 3.70m.

    This results in seats boasting a width of 18.5’’, even 19’’ for the middle seat, while an A320 seat normally is 17’’ wide. Business Class would be in a 2-2 arrangement on the CSeries and even 20’’ width. With its 2.11m high cabin ceiling and huge overhead bins, its no wonder the interior of the CSeries feels like a wide-body aircraft. Overhead space is sufficient for every passenger to bring a typical cabin bag and fit it in.

    Start up of the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan “PurePower” engines takes four minutes, simply started by the turn of two switches on the pilot’s middle console near the thrust levers in the cockpit. During this phase it already shows what an extremely low noise the engines are emitting, even at take-off setting it is only slightly louder than the unbeatably silent A380 with its huge insulations inside the cabin walls. “It’s 2dB quitter inside the cabin here even than on our new A320neos”, explains Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr while on board.

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    Plenty of pictures @ the link above.
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