Airbus makes a bizjet move
A220 goes corporate
It mentioned Airbus Corporate Jets and its ACJ TwoTwenty. Seems that Airbus is pitching a corporate version of its A220—a design originated by Bombardier as the CS100, part of its CSeries of airliners. After a sequence of events triggered by Boeing’s claim that Bombardier was dumping the CSeries at bargain-basement prices, Airbus took over the program, rebranding the single-aisle, 100-seat CS100 as the A220-100.
Although Airbus launched the ACJ TwoTwenty in 2020, a push is now in gear to sell these plush 18-seat, five-zone, 5,650-nautical-mile converted airliners as the leaders in what the company calls “The Xtra Large Bizjet” segment. Although there have been predecessors with similar ambitions—Embraer’s Lineage 1000 and Boeing’s BBJ come to mind—Airbus has been doing its research and feels confident there’s a market for the ACJ TwoTwenty (please don’t say “A220”; that’s the airliner version) in the United States. Makes sense, because everyone knows that’s the biggest market for corporate jets—or any other kind of aircraft, for that matter.
Airbus figured that out by doing some digging and coming up with the number of heavy business jets, and their lesser cousins, based around the United States. It published an interesting chart that I’ll share with you, which shows the states with the most private jets.
Any surprises? I can understand Texas, California, and Florida being top-ranked, so Airbus sales reps, set your courses to the Lone Star and Sunshine states.
