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Justin Trudeau to Boeing: Stop suing Bombardier
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has renewed his threat to scrap a potential deal to buy fighter jets from Boeing. (money.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Most Aviation journalist are very critical (negatively) on Boeing. They understand the problem very well and support Bombardier. In other words Boeing’s reputation is negative worldwide with that story and Bombardier is a beneficiary to the free publicity from Boeing. Lol!
Boeing is afraid of C Series high quality and positive press around the world’s aviation.
Boeing is afraid of C Series high quality and positive press around the world’s aviation.
Fact is, I'm not a fan of Trudeau, but frankly, Boeing (and Airbus for that matter) were asleep at the wheel, busy figuring out ways to stretch their bread and butter single aisle machines- to stuff upwards of 200 miserable poor souls into them.
Bombardier, meanwhile, develops an alternative A/C for the 110-130 pax market, and Delta smelled blood in the water to pounce on a manufacturer desperate to have a headliner...beating the crap out of Bombardier in the process, in order to get the price they wanted to phase out the Mad Dogs.
It's not like Canada won't buy US fighter jets. Last time I checked, Northrup Grumman makes them as well.
Like it or not, loss leaders occur in all facets of business, gang. Free markets allow for it, particularly when a company is trying to get a new product of theirs into circulation-even if it means selling at little to no margin. That's a company's decision to make.
Bombardier, meanwhile, develops an alternative A/C for the 110-130 pax market, and Delta smelled blood in the water to pounce on a manufacturer desperate to have a headliner...beating the crap out of Bombardier in the process, in order to get the price they wanted to phase out the Mad Dogs.
It's not like Canada won't buy US fighter jets. Last time I checked, Northrup Grumman makes them as well.
Like it or not, loss leaders occur in all facets of business, gang. Free markets allow for it, particularly when a company is trying to get a new product of theirs into circulation-even if it means selling at little to no margin. That's a company's decision to make.
Scott, you are correct in that there is no competition here. Bombardier makes something that Boeing and Airbus do not. It becomes the customers choice to purchase what they want.
If you can negotiate a price, all the better. Nothing illegal about that, bulk purchasers do it all the time.
If you can negotiate a price, all the better. Nothing illegal about that, bulk purchasers do it all the time.
And Boeing will be so pissed when COMAC purchases 30% or more of the CSeries Holding from Quebec govt and Bombardier and inject some $ to expand the factory and launch the CS500 & CS700 with China placing some hundreds units orders right of the bat...
That is a 10 years away dream about CS500 and CS700. Not before.
Thumbs up for Bombardier and Trudeau!
DeHavilland Canada] Bombardier not want to sell, perhaps? "If we can't beat them or buy them, let's sue them" Boeing has absolutely NO massive projects underwritten by the US government...{snark mode 'off'}