Luxembourg’s flag carrier Luxair had expressed an interest in the Airbus A220-500, the much-anticipated addition to the A220 family.
“If Airbus were to bring out the A220-500, that of course would be brilliant for us,” Luxair CEO Gilles Feith said in an interview with Swiss aviation magazine Aerotelegraph.
According to Feith, that would be the only way for Luxair to avoid operating a mixed fleet. The airline needs a replacement for both the De Havilland Canada Dash 8 and the Boeing 737. While the Airbus A220-300 or the Embraer E915-E2 could replace the smaller aircraft, Luxair still needs something the size of the Airbus A320 or A321.
The A220-500 would be ideal, adds Feith. However, it may still be some time before we see this aircraft.
Plans for a stretched version of the A220 go back to the birth of the airliner, as Bombardier, which designed the aircraft as the C-Series, discussed the possibility of the aircraft as early as 2012.
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