A source told me today there were many back door meetings with the provincial and federal governments. Im sure some type of subsidy was given to Bombardier to reduce the price of its CSeries to AC even further, its not the way any company should run, more like a band-aid solution.
Dead right. If, as the Govt seems to believe, AC is a NATIONALISED INDUSTRY then such 'Flagship' orders are understandable. Still bad, but understandable.
But, legally, AC is not. Consequently AC's private shareholders should be screaming bl
y murder at this aircraft being foisted upon them by Mr. Hopey Changey Trudeau and his merry gang. They could start with a class action suit for any consequential losses that arise from operating this unwanted ugly duckling of an aircraft.
The only real solution....? Well, Concorde was effectively given away to BA and Air France to operate. It's going to take something close to that for a supposedly commercial operation to sign on the dotted line. The truth will eventually emerge one way or another.