The university of Jordan DR: osama Al-habahbah Ismaeel alabdullah 0116695 Introduction The CS100 took its first flight on 16 September 2013. Bombardier announced in March 2015 that entry into service of the CS100 would be delayed until early 2016. The CS300 first flew on 27 February 2015, and is expected to enter service approximately six months after the CS100.The Bombardier C Series is a family of narrow body, twine engine, medium-range jetairline currently under development by Canadian manufacturer bombardier [1]. The C Series models are the 110-seat CS100 and the 135-seat CS300. These were initially named C110 and C130, respectively. In certification documentation, the C Series family is designated Bombardier BD-500, with suffix …show more content…
It will be equipped with a fly-by-wire (FBW) system with envelope protection, side-stick controls, large LCD displays, CAT IIIa autoland, weather radar with predictive wind shear, automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) out and controller pilot data link communication (CPDLC) system. A single or dual head-up guidance system (HGS) and electronic flight bag (EFB) will also be installed in the flight deck. Bombardier CS300 cabin The CS300 jetliner will feature a more spacious and comfortable cabin for the passengers on-board. The aircraft's cabin will be designed with an array of cabin configurations to meet the commercial airline requirements. The cabin is categorised into three divisions - dual class, standard single class, and high-density single class. CS300 aircraft performance The CS300 can fly at a maximum altitude of 12,497m. The maximum and normal cruise speed of aircraft is 871km/h and 829km/h respectively. Its range is 5,463km. The aircraft weighs around 17,327kg and its maximum take-off weight is 59,784kg. Conclusion Compared to the average Turbofan-powered Narrow-body Commercial Passenger Plane, the Bombardier CS300: • Is $34,570,000 more expensive at $66.6
The new trend in airline industry to use fuel efficient, high -tech aircraft is of a major concern for Air Canada. It has been under immense pressure to replace its fleet aircraft with more efficient Boeing 777 aircraft. However, the airline has purchased some Boeing777 aircraft, but these new purchases are used only for more profitable international routes depriving Air Canada’s domestic consumers of the facility. Furthermore, the varied fuel price has affected pricing policy significantly as its promotional policies are more price point based as compare to consumer based.
As per research Bombardier has already been investing heavily to modify its products accordingly to meet the standard of global economy. To increase their procedures, they have joint various strategic alliances with businesses and formed several joint ventures. Bombardier has formed multiple alliances with different companies throughout the world, to ensure steady growth and sales. It has many engineering and manufacturing sites in many countries. Bombardier succeeded to expand its operations in: Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America and South America. In order to successfully strive in growing markets,
One of the most common expenses was corporate airplanes. Such travel arrangements cost many fold compared to a commercial airline. The cost per hour would be close $5000. Moreover, these aircrafts would not carry any other passengers except for the corporate managers and would take them to their destination and fly them back. This put the entire cost of the aircraft on
The U.S. airline industry experienced year-over-year growth in passenger revenues, in 2013, driven by strong demand for air travel.2 Additionally, on average, fuel costs were down in 2013 as compared to 2012.2 The U.S. airline industry is also a very competitive market. Due to government deregulation in 1978 there are few regulatory barriers to new entrants in the market, although there are other barriers to consider. Starting a new airline is very capital intensive. Purchasing a commercial airplane from Boeing can cost anywhere from $76million to over $300million.4 Another barrier to entry is risk in the industry. Airlines tend to experience volatile costs such as fuel prices, which can be difficult to predict in the long run. A regu...
Use of a single-type aircraft fleet. The A320 Airbus has an increased seating capacity of 30 seats (24 after additional seating reconfigurations), is cheaper to maintain, fuel efficient and reduces training costs, relative to other aircraft models used in the industry.
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Airline and travel industry profitability has been strapped by a series of events starting with a recession in business travel after the dotcom bust, followed by 9/11, the SARS epidemic, the Iraq wars, rising aviation turbine fuel prices, and the challenge from low-cost carriers. (Narayan Pandit, 2005) The fallout from rising fuel prices has been so extreme that any efficiency gains that airlines attempted to make could not make up for structural problems where labor costs remained high and low cost competition had continued to drive down yields or average fares at leading hub airports. In the last decade, US airlines alone had a yearly average of net losses of $9.1 billion (Coombs, 2011).
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The new entry is likely from rich Gulf nations, China, and India of low budget planes around the globe. The airlines from the Gulf nations have placed orders with Airbus and Boeing that are valued in the billions. The deliveries are expected in the next decade. The demand will grow in the production of advanced narrow-body airplanes, such as Airbus, A321 and Boeing, B737 Max. The growth that is expected in the next decade, more consumers will be flying to their destinations. The airlines in the United States are expected to have a profit margin over the next decade. Resulting, from economic growth, and the demand for aircraft service. Buyers are expected to have a lot of power in the next decade, resulting in bargain prices for buyers. The competition will increase with intense rivalry in the aviation industry. The contracts for the aircrafts are totally from airplane
The E190 CASM is approximately 12% higher than A320. The E190 RASM is 30% higher than A320. E190 also has significant lower acquisition costs compared to A320. This reduces the financial break-even point for the flight operation. Comparing to other regional jets, E190 also has 34% less fuel consumption and higher utilization (10-11 hours vs. 8 hours/day) while offering more seating capacity allowing Jet Blue to service wider range of destinations. Additionally, E190 and A320 both can be operated interchangeably during peak and off-peak hours depending upon the demand. Also, use of E190 to feed A320 customers improves utilization of existing airport facilities and reduced downtime for crew members. This synergy provided Jet Blue added flexibility and more efficient operation. These are some of the reasons why E190 makes it a more economical strategic choice as it is well aligned with the low cost element part of its business strategy and can continue to provide an advantage over its
Flight fee is one of the biggest nightmares of the passenger. In this regard, such an initiative is a win-win situation for the Asiana airlines. The establishment of extensive cabin retrofits is also a great improvement to the customer service delivery. The airline also boosts customer experience in a bid to achieve the airline’s sustainability through the provision of lie-flat seats. The seats boost comfort for the passengers aboard; hence, reduction of exhaustion. According to Asian Development Bank (2009), the airline provides the passengers with a sizeable monitor, especially for the business class passengers. The practical productivity of team relies on upon its hypothetical planning, information of an aeronautical building, and tenets of its operation, including exceptional circumstances, and propensities for utilization of this learning, furthermore on order and determination of pilot-in-charge of aircraft and group individuals. The administration productivity air movement, the associations of flight action and a wide range of upkeep of aircraft in the greatest degree is controlled by the proficiency of the action association in the modern undertakings, cognizance of initiators, and the moral obligation of leaders of all positions for action concerning security control of
During 19991-1992, Modiluft, East West and Damania went bankrupt. Air Sahara and Jet Airways survived along with government own Indian Airlines because they had the capability to bear losses. Globalization and privatization had a major impact on aviation industry. Indian aviation industry was deregulated by the government in 1990s. As a result now 14 airlines are operating today in Indian sky. Now, collaboration with international organization and foreign direct investment are welcome to improve infrastructure and technology. Today people who can not afford high prices of Full Service Carriers (FSC) can travel by Low Cost Carriers (LCC) or budget airlines. Air Deccan was India’s first LCC started in 2003. It flies to several metro and non-metro destinations. All airlines have three major fixed costs i.e. fuel costs, financing or aircraft lease and labour cost. But LCC costs are 10 to 15 per cent lower than FSC. This is because of three reasons. Firstly, saving on distribution cost as passengers book tickets on the internet. Secondly, no frills are offered on board. Thirdly, to accommodate additional seats, catering and cabin crew space in these aircraft has been used. So these aircraft have 40 seats more than the FSC.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA). 2014. Airline Cost Performance. IATA Economics Briefing. [report] IATA, p. 31.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/16/nasas-supersonic-passenger-planes-of-the-future-co.aspx>. Chow, Denise. A. Boeing Aims to Fly Passengers to Space on New Capsule."
.British Airways were the pioneers with the introduction of space beds. To keep the Singapore Airlines to continue be a leader in providing the greatest comfort service to customers, it is our recommendation that Singapore Airline should continue with the installation of the space beds as this will keep them on top of the game with their main competitors. Furthermore, for an airline's long term Business Class customers to be taken seriously, the company should offer the comfort, of either the same value or even higher, to their customers. The drawback of the larger seats (space beds) would decrease the number of seats in the business class area of a jumbo jet from 58 to 50. However, installation of spacebeds ( in long term) will hopefully bring higher income to the Singapore Airlines because of the higher seat utilization.