The CRJ1000 is a bad idea. The cseries is a good idea but I remember Embraer saying they didn't want to venture into the over 110ish seat market because Boeing and Airbus are so entrenched. Bombardier is trying, more power to them.

But as to the cseries, I did a googlenews search and Lufthansa hasn't "commited" enough I guess, the firm order was a letter of interest but it looks as if Lufthansa doesn't commit soon they may be forced to shelve it for the second time from what I gather.

Bombardier is rather open about their surprise in the lack of interest in it. I guess after the fuel prices shot up they relaunched the program after being shelved for a lack of interest the first time, but now prices are low, airlines don't have money or credit, suppliers probably don't have credit either and interestingly enough there is a confidence issue with it. They say the A380 and 787's development problems has caused airlines to lose confidence in new aircraft designs and I guess the cseries is going from some new "risky" technology as well.

I didn't know a firm order wasn't a firm order wasn't a firm order, thats new.