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Bombardier Plans New Jetliner

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Monica Gutschi

Updated July 14, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

LONDON -- Bombardier Inc. said Sunday it will begin building its long-promised CSeries jetliner, after receiving a nonbinding letter of intent for 60 of the small planes from Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

While 60 planes is below Bombardier's goal for launching the model, company executives said they expect more orders for the plane, which they said...

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