, with the same interior plan. But the new 8000 will have modified GE Passport engines to extend speed and range. The 7500 has a range of 7700 nautical miles. Bombardier says the extra 300 miles on the 8000 will add more city-to-city pairs for the aircraft.
Though it was always intended to fly farther and faster than the Global 7500, the 8000 was originally designed with a smaller fuselage. Bombardier decided instead to design a business jet with the same fuselage as the 7500, but with a higher cruise speed and range.“The 8000 was supposed to be a zone smaller,” Mark Masluch, Bombardier’s senior director of communications, told“But we realized that we didn’t want to offer something that was a compromise.
Other enhancements include its Pur air circulation and advanced HEPA air filtration system, the lowest cabin altitude in its class of 2,900 feet flying at 41,000 ft., circadian rhythm lighting and special Nuage ergonomic seating that Bombardier developed for the 7500.The aircraft’s new upgraded GE Passport engines flew a test 7500 aircraft to the supersonic speed of Mach 1.015 last summer.
Martel said during the press conference that current Global 7500 owners would be able to “retrofit” their aircraft to obtain the same speed and range as the Global 8000. The 7500 would also be phased out when the 8000, which has a base price of $78 million, enters service in 2025.