Airbus A220

Rumors have been exploding about the future of Airbus making smaller aircraft with only A318 the smaller passenger aircraft from Airbus. In April 2018, Airbus announced their will be a brand new smaller aircraft to compete against the Embraer E Family series & worked on.

You might think it looks familiar for start that you think it's a Bombardier CS Series. The information is correct! Airbus decided to takeover the CS Aircraft giving a re-skin & rename the aircraft from Bombardier CS - Airbus A220. The aircraft made it's first flight just recently in full Airbus Industry livery with A220 on the tail & fuselage. The aircraft is still by Bomardier Aerospace & marketing by Airbus making it the first Canadian Airbus manufacturer based in Quebec, Canada. As Airbus is now in partnership with Bombardier Aerospace, Airbus acquired 50.1% majority stake, and Bombardier keeping 31% and Investment Quebec of 19% to expend the market of more than 6,000 new 100-150 seat aircraft for over 20 years.

Their are two Airbus A220 versions which we have Airbus A220-100 previously known as CS100, and Airbus A220-200 previously known as CS300. At present, only one Airbus A220-300 aircraft is built & made it's first flight in March 2016 previously CS300 Series in Canadian reg C-FFDO.

It's too early to tell about the future of A220 if it succeed after the failure of Airbus A318 in competition of the Boeing 737-600 in my opinion. Only 80 Airbus A318's was made from 2002-2013 so we see how many A220 aircraft can be made & will it succeed. For aircraft that are in service during Bombardier are still in Bombardier name, with aircraft that are due if it will be Bonbardier or Airbus type.