When the Paris Air Show opens Monday, more than 2,000 exhibitors are expected to hawking their wares. We have covered the two behemoths — Boeing and Airbus — but there is another aircraft maker that will be showing off a new plane in Paris. Canada-based Bombardier is bringing its CSeries planes to Paris for both static and flying display.

The CS100 and CS300 are all-new aircraft that move Bombardier into competition with both the 737 family from Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and the A320 family from Airbus. The CS100’s seating capacity ranges between 108 in dual-class arrangement to 125 in a single-class, high-density version. The CS300 seats from 130 to 160 passengers. The CS100 carries a list price of $63 million and the CS300’s price tag is $72 million, and the first plane will be delivered to its launch customer, Lufthansa-owned Swiss International, later this year.

In advance of the air show opening, Bombardier announced Sunday morning that both the CS100 and the CS300 have exceeded their original targets for fuel burn, payload, range and airfield performance. The planes’ range has been extended by 350 nautical miles (nm) to 3,300 nm, and Bombardier claims a fuel-burn advantage of more than 20% compared to current competitors and 10% compared to the re-engined aircraft coming from Boeing and Airbus.

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What Bombardier needs is to convert the bragging into sales. The company has not taken a single new order for a CSeries plane since last September, according to a report at Reuters. The company has booked 243 total orders for both planes, with the CS300 getting 75% of the business. A failure in the Pratt & Whitney engine last year caused a further delay to the CSeries program, which was first expected to deliver a plane in 2013.

On the eve of the Paris show comes a report that the company that organizes the U.K.’s Farnborough Air Show is set to close a deal to put on a new show in China beginning in 2017. The show’s venue is Chengdu in Sichuan province, and it will be called the Sichuan International Air Show. China’s sole air show currently is held in even-numbered years in Zhuhai in the south of the country near Macau. The Zhuhai show has been in operation since 1996, and the next one is scheduled for the first week in November next year.

According to a report in The Telegraph, the new show’s organizers expect a ground display of about 60 aircraft and a similar number putting on flying displays. Some 30,000 visitors are expected to view exhibits from 300 to 400 vendors. The show is about a third as large as the Farnborough show and will cost about £100 million, including exhibitors’ costs.

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