CRJ700 #10,100 delivered to Lufthansa CityLine	May 2003

On May 2, 2003 Bombardier Aerospace delivered CRJ700 Serial Number 10100 to Germany's Lufthansa CityLine at Bombardier's CRJ700/CRJ900 assembly plant at Mirabel, Quebec.

The first of the new generation 70-seat regional jets to reach the market - three years ahead of its competitor - 188 CRJ700s have been ordered by Lufthansa CityLine and Maersk Air in Europe; and American Eagle, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Comair, Horizon Air and Mesa Airlines in the U.S.

Lufthansa CityLine, of course, launched what became the regional jet revolution when it put the original Canadair Regional Jet into revenue service in November, 1992. That aircraft, serial number 7004, is still flying and had logged about 18,750 cycles (a cycle is one take-off and one landing) as of March of this year. It's still a teenager, though; the economic life/design life of the CRJ in the high-frequency environment of a regional airline is a lofty 80,000 cycles.

The CRJ700 is meeting the goals established for it - to increase capacity on routes developed by 50-seat regional jets while delivering the lower cost per seat mile demanded by regional airlines and offering passengers a spacious and comfortable cabin.

At Bombardier Aerospace, Regional Aircraft, our business is to help airlines build their business, and the CRJ700 is doing just that.