Bombardier and American Airlines Execute Firm Agreement with Options for up to 70 CRJ900 NextGen Regional Jets
December 12 2013 - 6:53AM
Marketwired
Bombardier and American Airlines Execute Firm Agreement with
Options for up to 70 CRJ900 NextGen Regional Jets
- Enhanced CRJ900 NextGen aircraft now offers up to 5.5 per cent
lower fuel consumption
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec 12, 2013) - Bombardier
Aerospace announced today that American Airlines Group Inc., of
Dallas, Texas has signed a firm purchase agreement to acquire 30
CRJ900 NextGen aircraft and has also taken options on an
additional 40.
Based on the list price for the CRJ900 NextGen
aircraft, the firm order contract is valued at approximately $1.42
billion US and could increase to approximately $3.38 billion US if
the 40 options are converted into firm orders.
With this order, American Airlines becomes the first customer to
benefit from the latest enhancements to the CRJ900 NextGen
regional jet. In addition to the four per cent improvement in fuel
burn already achieved with the "NextGen" package, enhancements to
the aircraft's powerplant and ongoing weight reduction initiatives,
which include upgraded avionics, will offer a further reduction of
up to 1.5 per cent. Altogether, this represents a 5.5 per cent fuel
burn reduction over the earlier generation CRJ900
aircraft, and up to 5.0 per cent lower fuel burn compared to
announced competitive, in-production jets in the same seat
class.
"It's been an exciting week for American Airlines," said Peter
Warlick, Vice President, Fleet Planning, American Airlines. "We've
closed our merger with US Airways Group, Inc. and as we begin the
work to harmonize the American and US Airways operations, an
agreement like this with Bombardier will greatly improve our
ability to optimize our flying with the right aircraft to meet
customer demand. This order will allow American to lower costs by
replacing older aircraft."
"We congratulate American Airlines and US Airways on their
merger and are delighted that the merged airline will use
Bombardier aircraft for its present and future fleet requirements,"
said Mike Arcamone, President, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. "Our
ongoing commitment to the technological updates of our product
offerings is today realized with value enhancements made to the
CRJ900 NextGen aircraft. Over the years we have been
successfully driving down operating costs by introducing fuel
efficiency improvements and maintenance cost reductions. The
product enhancements to the CRJ900 NextGen aircraft offer
fuel cost savings of up to $500,000 US* per aircraft."
Including the American Airlines order announced today,
Bombardier has recorded firm orders for 1,812 CRJ Series
aircraft, including 339 CRJ900 and CRJ900 NextGen
aircraft. Worldwide, CRJ Series aircraft are in service
with more than 60 airlines and more than 30 customers operate
corporate variants of the aircraft. The aircraft are operating in
over 50 countries on six continents, and on average, a CRJ
aircraft takes off every 10 seconds somewhere in the world.
CRJ Series aircraft have transported more than 1.4 billion
passengers and have logged more than 38 million flight hours and
over 32 million takeoffs and landings.
About Bombardier
Bombardier is the world's only manufacturer of both planes and
trains. Looking far ahead while delivering today, Bombardier is
evolving mobility worldwide by answering the call for more
efficient, sustainable and enjoyable transportation everywhere. Our
vehicles, services and, most of all, our employees are what make us
a global leader in transportation.
Bombardier is headquartered in Montréal, Canada. Our shares are
traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD) and we are listed on the
Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes. In the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, we posted revenues of $16.8
billion. News and information are available at bombardier.com or
follow us on Twitter @Bombardier.
Notes to editors
Images of CRJ900 NextGen aircraft in the livery of
American Eagle is posted with this release in the news releases
section at www.aero.bombardier.com
Additional information on CRJ NextGen aircraft is
available at www.crjnextgen.com.
Follow @Bombardier_Aero on Twitter to receive the latest news
and updates from Bombardier Aerospace.
* Net present value over a typical 12-year financing period.
Bombardier, CRJ, CRJ900, NextGen and The
Evolution of Mobility are trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its
subsidiaries.
Marc DuchesneBombardier Commercial
Aircraft+1-416-375-3030marc.duchesne@aero.bombardier.comwww.bombardier.com
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