This would also help Airbus, as it would mean that the company would now profit off of an aircraft which had no competitors at the time. This was good for Bombardier, as Airbus has its final assembly station situated in Alabama in the US, meaning that seen as the aircraft technically wasn’t foreign, the import tariff wouldn’t be imposed on it. However, Airbus decided to step in and acquire a 50% stake in the company, something beneficial for both parties concerned. (Credit: Aviation Week) Airbus saves the day It was then decided that, given Bombardier was a foreign company, the US government would impose a 300% import tariff, something near-destructible for the company. Boeing was quick to take action, claiming that it was stealing the market from its 737s, despite the fact that Delta had explicitly said that they weren’t looking to purchase the variants that Boeing were claiming to be losing out. However, this was contested and was seen to be Dumping, when a manufacturer essentially gives away its aircraft as sort-of “Samples”, and is illegal in the US and other countries. In fact, Bombardier was offering Delta 75 of the aircraft at $20 million a piece, a price which was even lower than the cost to build them, and a cost which was just too good to refuse. Eventually, more orders began to come for the new aircraft, including the critical ones in the US. (Credit: Simple Flying) Boeing’s crucial mistakeĮventually, these problems were fixed, and the first CSeries was delivered to SWISS on June 26, 2016. This was not good for the aircraft, nearly causing the project and the company to go bust, until financial aid was provided by the Canadian government.
However, things turned out not to go as planned, and the CSeries encountered issues on one of its test flights, causing it to miss the Farnborough air show, the largest in the industry, and delay its release. At first, things were running smoothly and it was expected to enter commercial service in 2014, just one year after its first flight. The particular area where it was expected to boom were the US markets, given there is always demand to be flying from small airports as there is no lack of them in the large country. The Airbus A220 was first named the “CSeries” by Bombardier, and was meant to cater to the demand of small aircraft in between their current-sized fleet and those larger already made by Airbus and Boeing. In this article I explore its controversial creation, and why it’s needed. This is all because of what some might call a mistake made by Boeing, causing Airbus to acquire a 50.01% stake in the company. Aside from the fact that the Airbus A220 is the only airbus aircraft to not have a 3 in its name, the A220 is special from the fact that it isn’t fully made by Airbus, but instead a joint venture between them and Bombardier.
0 kommentar(er)
