Featured Map for 1 February 2018:
Bombardier C Series

Bombardier's C Series family, consisting of the 108-seat CS100 and 130-seat CS300, scored a big win last week when the International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously ruled that the aircraft family did not harm Boeing. This decision nullifies the U.S. Commerce Department's proposed duty of nearly 300% on sales of the C Series to airlines in the United States.

The C Series entered service on 15 July 2016 when launch-customer Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) operated a CS100 from Zürich to Paris (Charles de Gaulle). SWISS now operates a fleet of 15 C Series aircraft including seven of the larger CS300. Air Baltic was the second operator, now flying a fleet of seven CS300s, at Korean Air Lines became the third operated in December and now has two CS300s in service from Seoul. Although most of the routes are fairly short there are several longer routes, the longest being Air Baltic's trip to Abu Dhabi which has a block time of nearly six hours and covers a distance of 2,359 nm. Bombardier has also flown a demonstration flight across the Atlantic, from the short runway of London City Airport no less.

Today's Featured Map shows the two European networks as of today. SWISS' routes from hubs at Zürich and Geneva are shown in red for the CS300 and white for the CS100; several routes are served by both models. Air Baltic's routes from Riga are illistrated in the airline's bright, yellow-green color. (Korean Air Lines will be the subject of a future map. The airline currently operates just two short routes with the C Series, but will add two more by the end of the month.)

References and additional information:

• C Series – Bombardier Commercial Aircraft
  • Bombardier Delivers Korean Air Line's First CS300 Airliner (22 December 2017)
  • Bombardier Delivers the First CS300 Aircraft to C Series launch Operator SWISS (26 May 2017)
  • Bombardier C Series Aircraft Completes Landmark Non-Stop Transatlantic Flight from London City Airport to New York John F. Kennedy Airport (27 March 2017)
  • Bombardier CS300 Aircraft Successfully Starts Revenue Service with airBaltic (14 December 2016)
  • Bombardier Delivers First CS300 Aircraft to airBaltic (28 November 2016)
  • Bombardier Provides C Series Program Updates (6 September 2016)
  • SWISS Launches Revenue Service with State-of-the-Art Bombardier C Series Aircraft (15 July 2016)
• ITC Unanimously Rejects Boeing's Claims Against Bombardier C Series – Investor's Business Daily (26 January 2018)
• Swiss
  • SWISS becomes world's first airline to serve London City with the Bombardier C Series – 20170808
• Air Baltic
• Korean Air Lines