Paris and Marianella La Barrera

seat market: But Montreal-based Bombardier is downplaying the results, insisting the Paris show was a major success, as two of its CSeries test planes—in the 100- to 160-seat market—were on display at the industry biggest event, according to The Toronto Star. The goal of this air show for Bombardier was to showcase its two brand-new CSeries aircraft, the first time an all-new, single aisle plane has been seen in close to 30 years, said spokeswoman Marianella de la Barrera in an email from Zurich, where the CS100 stopped to visit employees of launch carrier, Swiss, a division of Lufthansa. Embraer and ATR, which compete with Bombardier in the regional jet and turboprop market, also landed some good deals. We advanced on a number of fronts and the management team views our showing in Paris as a major success, she said. Bombardier is also touting its revised performance results for the CSeries that allow for a heavier payload including more passengers or cargo as well as lower fuel burn, which should help to spur sales. We came into this from the beginning focused on the strong marketing that was needed and not so much on squeezing announcements in for the sake of announcing. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.