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. Its great news for the company long term i guess.
Whats amazing is that CSeries has a shorter takeoff/landing capability than the CRJ impressive, if only Porter could further push for expanding that runway in DT Toronto!.
I hear Delta is looking into the Cseries as well, it'll be interesting to see the dog fight between Bomb. EMB and the MRJ in the next few years, for Bomb., it sucks 7000 people gotta lose their jobs because managements vision didn't match their strategy.