Originally Posted by
David Puddy
Agreed. Again, the CSeries ain’t an elongated CRJ. The CS300 has more seats than an A319. The combination of smaller CS100s (110-130 seats) and CS300s (140-160 seats in all-economy layout) would offer the best flexibility - same type rating and 95% part commonality between both models. And both are 25-30% more fuel efficient than current A319/320s.
True, however the bean counters will have to figure out if the lower fuel burn rate will actually save the company money with regards to our A319's. Adding a new fleet type is no cheap thing so it would have to be quite a large order of CS's or E-Jets to outweigh those costs. This is why Southwest never got into them and why Jetblue is rumored to be looking at dumping their E-Jets.