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Old 30th Sep 2017, 14:12
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Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
True.

But we're talking about what the CSeries competes with today, not 5 years and 8-10 billion dollars down the line.



You don't think engine technology and economics matters as much to the market as the airframes that they hang off ?
I think it matters much more which is why I made the point.
The statement was that the CSeries was way ahead of anything Boeing could produce. It's simply not true. The same suppliers offer the same tech to everyone. The aerodynamics and final production are about the only thing BBD could call their own. There is nothing novel, new or innovative in the airframe other than the size.
That BBD have been bailed out and have had to rely on dumping and a subsidised Air Canada order to make their books look anything other than dismal is why AB/Boeing don't offer a similar product.
If you told them both they could take a tax payer funded Billion dollar loss on the first couple of hundred orders I'm sure they would jump at it.
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