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Irish carrier Cityjet has taken delivery of 22nd Bombardier CRJ900LR completing an $467 million order announced on 29 March last year.

Commenting then Pat Byrne Executive Chairman said “The CRJ900 is proving to be an extremely reliable and popular aircraft in our Nordic operations on behalf of SAS Scandinavian Airlines. The confirmation of these orders – bringing us to 22 new CRJ900 aircraft in our fleet – further demonstrates CityJet’s belief in this aircraft as a key part of our wet lease growth strategy.”

EI-FPX Candair CRJ900 construction number 15444 was delivered Montréal-Keflavik-Copenhagen  on 6 March in SAS Airlines colours.

According to open source Flightradar24.com the aircraft entered service on 8 March operating SAS649 from Copenhagen to Hamburg.

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