India's Spicejet orders 15 Bombardier Q400s

Top

Search EDI

Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 04:17PM

Bombardier Aerospace announced today that SpiceJet of Gurgaon, India has placed a firm order for 15 Q400 NextGen turboprop airliners and has taken options on an additional 15 airliners.

Based on the list price for the Q400 NextGen aircraft, the firm order is valued at approximately $446 million US, and could increase to approximately $915 million US if all 15 options are converted to firm orders.

Kalanithi Maran, Chairman of the Board of Directors, SpiceJet, said, "As India's most preferred low-fare airline, we are focused on over 60 airports that could not be served by the larger jets and establishing our footprint in these markets. After an evaluation of all the aircraft in the 60- to 80-seat category, we have selected the Q400 NextGen airliner, which combines excellent reliability, economics and passenger comfort."

"This is a very important order for us as it establishes the Q400 NextGen airliner in India," said Gary R. Scott, President, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. "We expect India to take delivery of 600 commercial aircraft in the 20- to 149-seat category over the next 20 years, and we believe our optimized Q400 NextGen turboprop, CRJ Series regional jets and all-new CSeries aircraft are ideally suited to capture a sizeable portion of those deliveries.

SpiceJet currently serves 22 destinations in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Bombardier is making significant investments in the infrastructure for its support and services in India and the Asia-Pacific marketplace. Earlier this year, Bombardier opened its new Regional Support Office (RSO) in Mumbai. This office serves both business and commercial aircraft customers and is located in Andheri East near the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. The RSO's dedicated team complements Bombardier's regional Field Service Representatives located throughout India and its surrounding regions.

Bombardier's plan to establish strategically located RSOs is designed to provide a comprehensive support package encompassing aircraft technical expertise, flight operations support and customer account management functions. As a result of the proximity to its operators' bases, Bombardier can provide enhanced service to customers in their language and time zone.

Q400 NextGen aircraft

Optimized for short-haul operations, the "comfortably greener," 70- to 80-seat Q400 NextGen aircraft is a large, fast, quiet and fuel-efficient turboprop. It provides an ideal balance of passenger comfort and operating economics with a reduced environmental footprint. Including Spicejet's order, Bombardier has booked firm orders for a total of 404 Q400 and Q400 NextGen aircraft, and as of October 31, 2010, 322 had been delivered. Q400 and Q400 NextGen aircraft are in service with more than 30 operators worldwide and have logged more than 2 million flight hours and over 2 million landing and take-off cycles. Bombardier recently delivered the 1,000th Dash 8/Q-Series turboprop - aQ400 NextGen airliner. This milestone delivery re-confirmed the Dash 8/Q-Series turboprop program as one of the most successful regional aircraft programs in history.

Persona Corp. and Blogertize publishes several webzines, magazines, e-zines for news, entertainment and information, but cautions readers to read the USAGE NOTICE. Our mandate: "You Need to Know!"

• Auto News (autonews.co): The latest news, reviews and views on all things automobile

• Automobile Buzz (automobilebuzz.com): Everyone's favorite zine with the latest road tests, videos, and breaking news with special focus on sportscars and greencars

• Films and Books Magazine - News from Hollywood and New York, Books and Films

• Canadian Money Magazine

• Webzine (webzine.co): Reviews of the best, newest and brightest of webzines, print to web conversion zines, ezines and online publications.

* Noetic News: News, Features, Research on the Science of Consciousness

* Dog and Cat World: You can't know too much about your best friend.

* Dogs and Cats Life: A Magazine on dogs, cats and pets focused on health, wellness, happiness and the pet lifestyle

* Advance Magazine - Body, Mind, Spirit

* LINK Magazine: Good News Report

* EDI Weekly

* Secure Network News

* Crime Report USA

* Wise Tarot Magazine

* Asian Collector Magazine

* Buddha Weekly - Buddhist news, events, profiles from all traditions.

* Buddhist Antique Magazine

* Noetic Journal and the Science of Consciousness, reporting on the latest in Noetic Sciences and theory.

Social Network

* Blogertize on TWITTER

* Blogertize on MySpace

Contributors

• Jessica Lyric, Film Critic

• James McKinnon, Editor

• Derek Armstrong, Chief Crime Correspondent, Crime Report USA, contributor various

* SPECIAL AEROSPACE |

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.

Post a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.

Author:

Author Email (optional):

Author URL (optional):

Post:

↓ | ↑

Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

IMPORTANT: No advice is offered or given in this article or this publication. PLEASE ALWAYS REFER TO AN EXPERT before acting on any information contained in any of our stories.
Copyright © 2006-10, Blogertize Publications (http://www.blogertize.com), except as otherwise indicated. Text may be excerpted UNALTERED with FULL CREDIT and LINK. PHOTOS MAY NOT BE COPIED, DOWNLOADED OR REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION. Note: Some photos of real people may be models used to illustrate the editorial concept. MISSION: "You Need to Know" Our publications are daily online newspapers and magazines (webzines), plus delivered Ezines. Our stories also appear on various newswire services and are picked up in other publications. Our reporters and journalists break or report stories and their sources and source information are protected by the doctrine of free press as expressed in the First Amendment, Reporter's Privilege statutes, and also the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. COMMENTS FROM USERS: We invite dialogue and comments from our readers and limit moderation to obscenity and privacy issues, however WE ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER FOR THIS CONTENT. We believe in the doctrine of FREE SPEECH. COMMENTS AND MOST STORIES ARE FROM OUTSIDE CONTRIBUTORS AND READERS AND NOT A REFLECTION OF THE OPINIONS OF THIS MAGAZINE. The opinions expressed by our writers, columnists and reporters are their opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of this magazine, its writers and staff, or Blogertize Publications.TM - Our magazine names are trademarked. Our publications team provide this ezine and web site and its contents in good faith but makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this web site or its contents. We disclaim any representations and warranties, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties of any kind. In addition, we do not represent or warrant that the information accessible via this web site or the products or services sold or given free on it are accurate, complete or current. Errors and Omissions Excepted. By using/visiting this site you agree that use information herein is at your own risk. PRIVACY: SPAM POLICY: We do not use, nor do we condone the use of unsolicited bulk email. Our email system is an opt-in only. Please report any incidents of unsolicited email coming from or mentioning our domain to editor AT blogeritze.com. All matters will be investigated and dealt with promptly. Jurisdiction: Any action or dispute arising from the use of information on this site will be deemed to have been undertaken and concluded in Toronto, Canada and will be interpreted, construed and enforced in all respects in accordance with the laws of Canada and all parties thereto shall submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Ontario courts. A visitor agrees that the applicable law to be applied shall, in all cases, be that of the city of the web site owner, namely, Toronto, Canada.