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Delta announced that it is ending almost two lots of shopping with two different manufacturers, Bombardier and Airbus. The first refers to a lot of CSeries line of aircraft from Bombardier, the newest bet the Canadian manufacturer for the regional sector, it is expected that an order for 125 aircraft is carried out, but that total not every request will be for orders still, it was also not disclosed on which version of the CSeries Delta interested.
Delta would also be close to placing an order for 30 units of Airbus A321 aircraft already used in its fleet, the deal is valued at over $ 3.5 billion at list price . This order would be part of a huge fleet renewal, which includes the replacement of Boeing 757, MD-88 and regional jets as ERJ and CRJ, the search for a new goal of operational savings and maximizing profits has led to Delta analyze and together with several manufacturers to analyze different proposals.
Currently Bombardier says that the order would be a great increase in the CSeries project, which currently has only 250 fixed applications, the latest made by Air Canada, which resulted in a firm order for 45 aircraft CS300, currently the version with higher capacity CSeries. The goal of Bombardier's CS300 certify to the end of the first half, with deliveries starting in the first quarter 2017, while the CS100 will have its first unit delivered to the Swiss in the third quarter of this year.
Airbus recently opened a final assembly line in the United States, with capacity to produce up to 50 A320 family aircraft per month, this unit only meet American customers. It is not yet declared by Airbus production of the A320neo family on American soil.
