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Originally Posted by Bigtime
The C-Series needed these deals in the US (Delta and Republic I believe) to show just how good an aircraft it is. By all accounts Swiss is very happy with it. It is telling that Boeing has gone to these lengths in regards to the aircraft, they clearly view it as a threat.
It's also worth noting that there were quite a few US Airlines that were advocating in favour of Bombardier (some of them don't even operate one of their types) in this challenge. I can't remember the exact number but a very large percentage of the C Series is made in the US too.
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At the same time the sales of the C series pretty much dried up with one minor deal.
they might make a very good plane, but they have trouble actually making it, marketing it and selling it.
I think that one of the reasons why Boeing went so hard is that the C series design could scale up into classes that would compete with something like the 707.
This is Boeing preemptively striking to allow Bombardier to even get a foothold in the US market.
The dumping ruling could be interesting next week, if that goes against Bombardier its a huge hammer blow.
As it stands Bombardier has stated that it won't pick up the cost of the tariffs on the Delta deal, and I have a feeling that Delta will refuse to pick it up either which will probably lead to Delta walking away from the deal.
If Boeing really wants to enter into the midsized passenger market that Bombardier is sitting it, they'd probably open negotiations to buy Bombardier.