Photo by Harriet Baskas
CEOs from a good number of Star Alliance airlines – and a rag tag group of journalists – attending the Annual General Meeting of IATA (the International Air Transport Association) in Dublin took part in a special flight to Zurich on a new aircraft: the Bombardier C Series – CS100.
We're saying goodbye to the @Bombardier #CS100 today. Hope to see it @DublinAirport again soon. #avgeek pic.twitter.com/rSri0X4945
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) June 3, 2016
Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) will be the first airline in the world to operate the new Bombardier C series. The carrier is putting its first CS100 into service on 15 July and will begin replacing its existing Avro RJ100 fleet of 20 aircraft with this new plane.
The flight from Dublin to Zurich was on a SWISS-branded test plane – #5 – but offered a preview of the new short- and medium-haul twinjet that promises improvements in inflight comfort and operations.
“Official” snaps are being prepped, but here are some tweets and reports from a variety folks on the flight and on the ground.
#CSeries ready for flight from Dublin to Zurich. Reuters is aboard! #CS100 #Bombardier pic.twitter.com/feG1dFWacx
— ReutersAerospaceNews (@ReutersAero) June 3, 2016
The @bombardier #CS100 demonstrator in @FlySWISS livery @DublinAirport The #PaxEx should be good pic.twitter.com/SgPQqoGm0Q
— Michael Kelly (@Michaelkelly707) June 2, 2016
Execs on #CSeries flight all agree it was quiet, lauded the big baggage bins, wide aisle, large windows pic.twitter.com/74g2MWxZS4
— ReutersAerospaceNews (@ReutersAero) June 3, 2016
Rainbow as we came in to land at Zurich on the #Cseries #flySwiss #bombardier pic.twitter.com/BxqmIygmXd
— Victoria Bryan (@vl_bryan) June 3, 2016
The @BBD_Aircraft #CSeries descending over Switzerland. Sheer #avgeek joy. ##thatjohnCSeries pic.twitter.com/jclGbzQycz
— John Walton • @thatjohn.bsky.social (@thatjohn) June 3, 2016
Here’s a video from June 17th 2015, when SWISS welcomed one of the Bombardier C Series CS100 prototypes to Zurich Airport.
(Film produced by SkyProduction.ch for Swiss International Air Lines)