Boeing will defend its market share if Bombardier’s proposed CSeries starts adding pressure to its narrowbody offering, but the US airframer does not believe launch of the proposed 110/130-seat airliner is warranted.

“We don’t see [the] economics to justify potential launch of that aircraft,” said Boeing VP marketing Randy Tinseth today at the JPMorgan Aviation and Transportation Conference in New York.

“The CSeries has now been around in paper form since 2004,” he says, adding that clearly the aircraft now on sale by Bombardier to customers “is better than it was a few years go”.

At the same time, however, says Tinseth, when launching a new aircraft “significant” improvements in efficiency and maintenance costs are essential. “By our analysis, it [the CSeries] doesn’t get there.”

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