Originally Posted by
Pizzacake
There's laws in the US about switching the place of manufacture to avoid tariffs that airbus/bombardier will have to circumnavigate but im sure if some journos know about this their lawyers will have scoped it out already.
I think it's moved on beyond that now. The US market is important, but not as significant as the whole rest of the world. Even if Boeing somehow managed to keep the C series out of the USA even if it is made in Mobil, that's largely irrelevant in comparison to the bigger picture. Which is that AirBardier now have a hugely impressive line up to sell to the rest of the world and the resources to manufacture them. Boeing simply have nothing in comparison. And even if they started today on a 737 replacement it's going to be 5 to 7 years before anything is starting flight testing.
This is now a matter of will Boeing be lucky, yes, lucky enough to sell aircraft within the USA. They're on the very cusp of exiting the global single aisle market. If the US government doesn't play hardball with AirBardier, Boeing's long term single aisle market presence within America is under serious and deadly threat.
With zero public announcement of a 737 replacement airlines will increasingly wonder why Boeing are still pushing a design with its origins in the 1950s. Boeing needed to replace it all the way back in 1992, but didn't. This deal is the future which that laziness has earned them.
Develop, or die. It applies to every company of every size. Even Boeing.