[HN Gopher] Air France-KLM Unveils Tiny A220 Jet in Superjumbo's...
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       Air France-KLM Unveils Tiny A220 Jet in Superjumbo's Shadow
        
       Author : infodocket
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2021-09-29 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | rewma wrote:
       | For those out of the loop, the Airbus A220 is actually the
       | Bombardier C-Series, the plane that posed such a threat to Boeing
       | and it's 737 that they outright tried to kill Bombardier with
       | shady regulatory practices to avoid having to compete with it.
       | 
       | Thankfully Airbus stepped in to save the day and took a majority
       | partnership with Bombardier to save Bombardier's C-Series.
       | 
       | Here's an insightful post on the topic from an old HN discussion.
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353890
        
         | 908B64B197 wrote:
         | What's puzzling is why Trudeau immediately bowed down to Trump
         | when tariffs were imposed, despite later being thrown out in
         | courts. All he did was to basically threaten to not buy Boeing
         | fighter jets and instead get F-35 from Lockheed (which he was
         | contractually obligated to anyways).
         | 
         | No support for the industry, nothing. And that was for a
         | flagship prestige technological project. Could you imagine the
         | European Union just... giving up on Airbus? Or the American
         | Government on Boeing?
         | 
         | I still don't understand why he reacted so submissively to
         | Trump. Having the CSeries sold to Airbus at a huge discount was
         | foolish: The plane already had a profitable order backlog.
         | 
         | Now Europeans are reaping the benefits.
        
           | redis_mlc wrote:
           | Bombardier and its pension fund backer wanted a low-risk exit
           | from the airliner business, especially to avoid continuing
           | investment.
        
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