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Sep 4, 2007 (newstodate): Bombardier is seeing a strong growth in demand for its aircraft in new markets, and plans to increase production capacity accordlingly.
Especially new orders are coming in from emerging markets such as China, India and Russia.
Bombardier Aerospace received 84 net orders for regional aircraft for this year's second quarter, including 54 orders for regional jets, compared to nine regional aircraft during the same period last fiscal year.
Bombardier Aerospace has thus decided to increase production of CRJ700 and CRJ900 regional jets from a rate of one aircraft every five days to a rate of one aircraft every four days.
Bombardier Aerospace expects to produce approximately 50 CRJ700 and CRJ900 aircraft during this fiscal year and approximately 57 regional jets during fiscal year 2009.
Turboprops also generated strong demand, with orders for 30 aircraft compared to nine for the same period last year.
Especially new orders are coming in from emerging markets such as China, India and Russia.
Bombardier Aerospace received 84 net orders for regional aircraft for this year's second quarter, including 54 orders for regional jets, compared to nine regional aircraft during the same period last fiscal year.
Bombardier Aerospace has thus decided to increase production of CRJ700 and CRJ900 regional jets from a rate of one aircraft every five days to a rate of one aircraft every four days.
Bombardier Aerospace expects to produce approximately 50 CRJ700 and CRJ900 aircraft during this fiscal year and approximately 57 regional jets during fiscal year 2009.
Turboprops also generated strong demand, with orders for 30 aircraft compared to nine for the same period last year.