Airbus CEO expects to sell ‘thousands’ of C Series aircraft

The conduct of Airbus told a Montreal business public on Friday that he believes a association will sell thousands of Bombardier’s C Series aircraft.

“I consider we will sell many some-more of these planes,” Airbus arch executive Tom Enders pronounced during an entrance with  Alain Bellemare, a boss and CEO of Bombardier, during a Montreal Board of Trade. “I consider we will sell thousands” of the 110- to 130-seat jets, he said.

Enders also called a C Series a “superb” single-aisle aircraft. “I see no reason since we should not be means to constraint 50 per cent of that market,” he said.

Bellemare pronounced a understanding brings together a strength of Airbus’ offered knowledge, supply sequence imagination and after-market support with Bombardier’s product.

On Monday, Airbus and Bombardier suggested that Airbus will take a infancy holding in a C Series program.

As partial of a understanding that will see Airbus take a 50.01 per cent interest in the C Series Aircraft Limited Partnership, a C Series domicile will sojourn in Montreal area and a primary C Series final prolongation trickery will sojourn in Quebec.

The understanding also contains a proviso that would give Airbus a right to buy a whole C Series business from Bombardier in 2025 during a “fair value” to be dynamic later. At a same time, Bombardier has a right during that time to sell a whole business to Airbus, if it wants to.

However, Enders pronounced Friday that Airbus has no skeleton to buy out Bombardier.

“We have no goal to buy out a others since we know they are good partners and if they wish to stay on a tour going brazen they are really acquire to that,” Enders told reporters after a event.

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The Airbus-Bombardier understanding emerged only weeks after a U.S. supervision announced severe duties of 300 per cent on a C Series aircraft. The duties, that are nonetheless to be confirmed, came after Boeing launched a trade censure opposite Bombardier, observant a association was offered a aircraft in a U.S. below cost and receiving supervision subsidies. 

In further to Bombardier’s C Series prolongation in a Montreal area, a second public line to furnish a aircraft will be set adult during an Airbus plant in Mobile, Ala. Enders has said that an aircraft constructed during a U.S. Airbus trickery would not be theme to U.S. duties.

However, he pronounced Friday that “[Boeing] will positively chuck all into a approach they can figure.”

“The entrance months … competence be a small bit severe and tough, though we’ve seen that before,” Ender added.

He pronounced he was “absolutely confident” that a shareholders, operative together with support of other stakeholders, will overcome opposite a competition.

Bombardier shares were adult some-more than 2.5 per cent in afternoon trade on a TSX, rising 7 cents to $2.85.

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