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Atlasjet signed a letter of intent for 10 aircraft and has options for five more CS300s, which would bring the total value to USD$1.18 billion, Bombardier said.
The Turkish private airline is looking to firm up the order in the next two months, Bombardier's president Guy Hachey told reporters on the sidelines of the announcement.
Delivery of the CS300 for Atlasjet would begin in the first quarter of 2016 and continue until mid-2017.
Atlasjet is the Canadian manufacturer's tenth customer for the new CSeries, and with a backlog of 263 jets, more than 50 percent of its customers are outside of North America and Western Europe, officials said.
"CSeries is a brand new product we have seen it as the best economic mixed-class," Murat Ersoy, chairman of Atlas says. "This aircraft will be the strength of our region."
The C-Series is Bombardier's bold USD$3 billion attempt at designing and building its biggest plane yet. The narrow-body jet aimed at the 100 to 149-seater market will put the company in direct competition with the smaller planes of the industry's giants Airbus and Boeing.
The first delivery of the series is expected to start at end of 2013.
Hachey said the manufacturer is also speaking to Qatar Airways on the CSeries. "We have a competitive offering."
