BERLIN, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Canada's Bombardier BBDb.TO
said it is on track to certify its new CSeries CS100 jet by the
end of the year, and is 100 percent committed to the programme,
which has not won a new firm order in over a year.
Bombardier had been in talks with Airbus AIR.PA over an
investment in the struggling CSeries programme but those
discussions ended abruptly last week. Some analysts have since
suggested the programme could be cancelled altogether.
"Let's start with the fact that Bombardier is 100 percent
committed to the CSeries, it is coming to the market," Ross
Mitchell, vice president of business acquisition at Bombardier,
said at the ERA regional airlines conference in Berlin.
Mitchell said Bombardier was in discussions with potential
customers in Europe but declined to comment on the timing of any
possible orders.
The plane is now entering the final stage of flight testing,
with all the high risk testing completed, Mitchell said, adding
that puts the first jet on track to be delivered to Lufthansa's
Swiss LHAG.DE unit in the first half of 2016.