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Old 2nd Jan 2020, 23:06
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Originally Posted by tdracer
No, Bombardier bailing on the commercial airline business has little to do with Boeing's unfair trade complaint.
It has everything to do with the C-Series development nearly bankrupting Bombardier, with little hope that the program would become cash-flow positive for many years.

Turns out building and selling large commercial jetliners profitably is hard - really hard. So hard that only two companies in history have made money building and selling jetliners larger than 100 seats.
LOL... From the guy from Everett Washington.

Although I would not put all the blame on Boeing for Bombardier's financial problems (because of the C Series), it had to do a lot with it.
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