Bombardier has big day at Paris Air Show

Bombardier has announced three major orders for new aircraft at the Paris Air Show today. Korean Air has purchased ten of the company's new CSeries300 aircraft, with an option to buy ten more and purchase rights for another ten. The sale to Korean Air marks Bombardier's first CSeries sale to an Asian carrier. If all thirty aircraft are sold, the deal would be worth about $2 billion.

This brings to 123 the number of orders for CSeries jets to date, the fourth order this month.

A second deal announced today is with AVWest of Australia, a corporate jet operator. The airline has ordered four Global 7000 and two Global 8000 ultra-long-range jets with a value of approximately $400 million.

And a third deal with VistaJet of Switzerland for ten Global 8000 aircraft, worth about $650 million, rounds out the orders in Paris today. VistaJet has bought more than 80 aircraft from Bombardier over the past six years.

The Global 8000 is a large-cabin business jet with the ability to fly virtually anywhere worldwide, non-stop. According to Bombardier, it is the only contender in the business jet market able to meet this requirement.

A much anticipated sale of CSeries jets to Qatar Airways has been deferred, meanwhile.