BOMBARDIER CRJ9 — specifications and route economics
BOMBARDIER CRJ9 (CRJ9) — up to 88 seats, MTOW 37.4 t, CF34-8C5. With FlightCost you can calculate any route on this type for free: fuel, airport and air navigation charges, crew, maintenance, leasing and the break-even load factor — with a source for every number.
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Specifications
| Parameter | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Seats, typical layout | 78 | OpenAP |
| Seats, maximum | 88 | OpenAP |
| Maximum take-off weight (MTOW), t | 37.4 | OpenAP |
| Maximum landing weight, t | 33.3 | OpenAP |
| Operating empty weight (OEW), t | 20.4 | OpenAP |
| Fuel capacity, t | 8.89 | OpenAP |
| Cruise Mach | 0.75 | OpenAP |
| Cruise altitude, m | 11,000 | OpenAP |
| Engine | CF34-8C5 | OpenAP |
| Number of engines | 2 | OpenAP |
| Length, m | 33.5 | OpenAP |
| Wingspan, m | 23.2 | OpenAP |
| Fuselage width, m | 2.69 | OpenAP |
| ICAO aerodrome code letter | B | OpenAP |
Economics on Frankfurt — Vienna
621 km along the flight path, 1.6 h block, 80% load factor — 70 of 88 seats (certified maximum), July. Calculated by the FlightCost engine; ownership, maintenance and crew rates are defaults: 34% of the total rests on assumptions.
| Item | EUR | Share | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airport charges | 2,778 | 28% | calculation |
| Fuel | 2,435 | 25% | calculation |
| Ground handling | 1,054 | 11% | assumption |
| Crew | 884 | 9% | assumption |
| Maintenance | 744 | 8% | calculation |
| Distribution and sales | 687 | 7% | assumption |
| En-route charges | 472 | 5% | calculation |
| Aircraft ownership | 466 | 5% | assumption |
| Terminal charge | 295 | 3% | calculation |
Types of this class on the same route
Same route, load factor and assumptions — only the aircraft type differs.
| Type | Seats, max | flight, EUR | per seat, EUR | CASK, ¢ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOMBARDIER CRJ9 | 88 | 9,816 | 112 | 18.0 |
| Embraer E175 (LR) | 88 | 10,447 | 119 | 19.1 |
| Embraer E170 | 78 | 9,959 | 128 | 20.6 |
| Embraer ERJ145 (LR) | 50 | 7,153 | 143 | 23.0 |
Lease rate and maintenance cost: estimates for ownership and upkeep
If you do not enter your own rates, the calculator uses estimates from weight and seat count. These are parametric, not operator data: each one can be replaced in the calculation.
| Lease, EUR per month | 89,156 |
| Utilisation, flight hours per month | 300 |
| Ownership per flight hour (lease ÷ hours), EUR | 297 |
| Maintenance, EUR per flight hour | 294 |
| Maintenance, EUR per cycle | 283 |
| Crew, EUR per flight hour | 424 |
| Crew, EUR per cycle | 157 |
Maintenance by year — US carriers' reports (Form 41)
Maintenance cost per block hour as reported by US carriers flying this type: direct (labour, materials, outside services) and full — with the maintenance department's overheads. Dollars of each year, not restated. 2020 stands above its neighbours: flying dropped, the fixed part of the cost stayed.
2025: direct USD 874, with overheads USD 891 per block hour, 3 carriers
Source: BTS, Form 41 Schedule P-5.2; analysis in the “Maintenance” research. →
Price and lease rate from publications
Aircraft list prices, transaction prices and market appraisals are shown separately from monthly lease rates. Each observation includes a date and a source link.
USD k per month
— — calculator default (aircraft about 12 years old), in dollars of each year. The line is the lease the calculator uses without your own rates: EUR 89,000 a month as of October 2026 at 1.16 USD/EUR, restated in dollars of earlier years by the US CPI-U price index. It is an estimate for an aircraft about 12 years old; points of another age are not directly comparable.
The lease market is recovering after 2020: AerCap's fleet yield (lease rents ÷ average lease assets) was 11.4 % in 2019, bottomed at 9.6 % in 2021, 10.8 % in 2025 — not yet back to 2019.
The vertical interval shows the published range; the dot and centre line show computed midpoints. Between dates, shading linearly joins ranges of the same kind, aircraft age and source.
| Month | Kind | Value | Age | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07 | Lease per month | USD 100–115 kcomputed midpoint: USD 107.5 kUse midpoint in calculator | not stated | TrueNoordContext and quoteСтр. 33, раздел 6.3.1 CRJ900; возможный низкий диапазон месячной аренды для возврата находящихся на хранении самолётов в эксплуатацию. Июль 2022; точный возраст не указан. Середина диапазона вычисляется отдельно и не является опубликованной ставкой. these may now be as low as US$100-115,000 in order to ensure that stored inventory is returned to service |