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Air Canada is taking Bombardier’s brainchild right into Boeing country.

Starting in May, Canada’s largest airline will deploy its newest jet model, the Airbus A220, on a new non-stop route linking Montreal’s Trudeau airport to Seattle — the western U.S. city that is home to Boeing’s largest factories. Assembled in Mirabel, the A220 was previously known as the Bombardier C Series before the Montreal-based company handed the program over to Airbus last year.

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Air Canada will become the first North American carrier to fly the larger version of the jet, the A220-300, which has a range of 3,200 nautical miles. Delta Air Lines of the U.S. operates the smaller A220-100 on such routes as New York-Houston and Seattle-San Jose, Calif. Air Canada will also fly to San Jose with the A220, from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

Carriers like the A220 because of its lower operating costs — mostly the result of the fuel-efficient Pratt & Whitney engines that power the jet — compared with older aircraft like the 146-seat Airbus A320 or the 97-seat Embraer E190. The Bombardier-designed plane is also quieter and less polluting.