Wasn’t bombardiers failure the result of Boeing playing dirty and pulling political strings? The commerce department imposed tariffs that quadrupled the price of the plane.
I mean, Bombardier was selling the planes below cost, which is the technical definition of dumping.
Part of why they had to do it is because they had so many testing issues and delays with their new design that people were not willing to bite the bullet on an unproven design.
> I mean, Bombardier was selling the planes below cost, which is the technical definition of dumping
Nope, it's not unheard of in aviation because a plane, or an engine, has a multi-decade life, over which there will be a lot of maintenance and spare parts needed.
GE and Rolls-Royce used to sell jet engines at a loss, banking on maintenance and spare parts making up the losses.
And of course, the punitive tariffs were later removed because Boeing weren't actually impacted by the C-series, dumping or not.
