Originally Posted by
CLazarus
Agreed
You already made pretty much the same case over in the "C-Series still a possibility?" thread. Up until two years ago the management at BBD wanted to charge a premium price for such a wonderful je ne sais quoi sort of aircraft. That management team is gone. The new management understands the need to offer competitive prices to kickstart a viable program, hence the DAL and Air Canada sales last year. I am sure they also fully understand the concepts of seat mile costs and amortization in regards to price. The C Series is not out of the woods, but it has a fair chance for overall success. A much better chance now than it looked like two years ago, regardless of whether or not we ever deign to buy any.
Anyways, I'm not really interested in this thread becoming a dedicated C Series thread. Good ol' David Puddy kinda hijacked it a bit. I'm a lot more interested in the bigger picture, and am eagerly awaiting some constructive feedback on my big post yesterday (#301).
The C-Series hasn't sold precisely because BB wouldn't budge on price. They are broke and living off of government loans. To make the DAL deal, they sold them way under cost, and then immediately publicly wrote off about 500 million dollars on the deal. I don't think the Canadian government is going to subsidize a money losing aircraft for long, especially so BB can sell airplanes south of the border.
Hey, Hey, Trump finally got his "great trade deal" with BB selling jets to DAL way below their cost to produce them. Maybe NAFTA ain't so bad after all? LOL