Bombardier is focused on designing a communications architecture for the CSeries that is compatible with whatever cockpit and cabin connectivity solutions are desired by its customers, the Canadian airframer says.

“Our customer base is saying ‘what we want is the ability to get data in and out of that airplane, and use almost a world standard for that, not so much an OEM standard’. The last thing our customers want is to be jammed into using a Bombardier standard for data. The way we’re looking at it is to make it so that the customer can use the [service] provider they want and the means they want,” says Bombardier vice-president, commercial aircraft programmes Ben Boehm.

In 2013, when the CSeries enters into service, he adds: “It will not be about forcing a customer into what we want. It will be about us making the airplane compatible for how the customer wants to dump data in an out of the airplane.”

Whether CSeries customers will ultimately prefer an L-band or

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