Swiss Upgrades More CSeries Orders

Swiss International Air Lines will upgrade five of its Bombardier CS100s jets on order to the larger CS300 and is considering doing the same for another five.

Swiss, the launch customer for the new plane, had placed a firm order for 30 CS100s and last year already converted 10 of those to the larger CS300 variant.

The announcement means Swiss now has 15 CS300s on order. With 10 fixed as the CS100 variant, it can still decide to upgrade the final five in the order.

"We are considering whether to convert the last five," Thomas Kluehr, chief executive of Swiss, said at a Star Alliance event in Zurich.

Bombardier flew executives from the Star Alliance member airlines to the event in Zurich on a CS100.