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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 11:17 pm
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rehoult
 
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Originally Posted by Shareholder
The reason the order book is thin is because Bombardier has been pushing its new jet which is a generation ahead of both the CRA and Embraer.
That doesn't make know sense and you know it. The CSeries is a 100-145 seat airplane and isn't designed to compete with the CRA/J or the E-Jets. The RJ competition isn't E-Jet vs CRA vs CSeries. It's E-Jet vs CRA, and the CRA is getting crushed (and with good reason IMHO).

Bombardier was a huge player in the RJ market, mainly because they offered the best product until the E70/90 showed up, but it now appears they've given up on it entirely in favour of the mid-sized narrow body market. I'm not saying its a bad decision, but painting the dismal CRA numbers as 'they're focusing on its replacement', when the CSeries isn't a replacement, is disingenuous.
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