When you walk down the scorching tarmac at the Dubai Air Show, youll spot an unmissable igloo amongst the chalets and aircraft displays. That igloo houses the brand new Bombardier CSeries cabin mockup and the flight deck, which was unveiled at Dubai Air Show for the first time.

Amidst talk of re-engining or stretching of narrow-body jets by Airbus, Boeing and Embraer, the CSeries remains the only brand-new aircraft. And that means its not an incremental, but a disruptive change over existing technologies. Having toured the cabin mockup once, over a year ago, I had the opportunity to be back in the final mockup (before the real plane is built) at the Dubai Air Show 2011.

Im sharing here a video in the cockpit, with Chet Fuller, the SVP of Sales, Marketing and Asset Management at Bombardier, and another with Sam Cherry, Director of Product Strategy (who led the original tour a year ago) sharing whats new. Great fun for an #avgeek like me and certainly for the passenger when this beauty takes to the air. Enjoy!

: Bombardier Commercial Aircraft is a SimpliFlying client and among other things, we recently worked with them to launch the SpiceJet Q400 in India.

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