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Old 18th Oct 2015, 18:02
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In an AFP article this morning an industry analyst puts the CSeries break-even point at 800 firm orders, up from the original 300 target.

Back-of-napkin calculations suggests that even in a good case scenario the program will be losing money for around 7 years.

It also implies they'll need much more than $2 billion extra to invest in the program, on top of the $5.4+ billion spent to date.

They're really cutting it to the edge with this one.

http://news.yahoo.com/bombardier-win...063654327.html
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