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Thing is, science and technology marches on. Advances in engine tech, aerodynamics, composite materials, electronics etc. make the CSeries much cheaper to opera
by skgoa 9y ago
Thing is, science and technology marches on. Advances in engine tech, aerodynamics, composite materials, electronics etc. make the CSeries much cheaper to operate than the 737. Airlines across the globe have seen this value advantage. Hence Boeing resorting to effectively getting the CSeries banned in the US by having Congress slap a massive tarif on it.
- ajross 9y agoThat's just refuting my point by stating the opposite. In fact jetliners don't really improve like you posit. Boeing's own high tech superplane (in a different market segment) is in fact only a "mildly significant" improvement over the 767 that it most directly replaces. In fact the 767 remains in production because existing operators don't want to switch to the 787 yet: the cost of running a mixed fleet is higher than the efficiency savings of the new jet. That's the kind of market Bombardier was aiming at. And it's a bad bet, protectionism or no. It's very likely this plane would have failed regardless.