Sentences with phrase «bombardier jets»

A deal with Airbus would also allow Bombardier jets access to Airbus» marketing arm and its European and Asian clients.
The Bombardier jets will be put into service in 2001.
Delta, the second - largest U.S. airline, said it opted for the Bombardier jets because Boeing offered it no feasible alternative.
Delta agreed to buy at least 75 of the sleek, some 100 - seat Bombardier jets last year.
Delta, which has also been an important Boeing customer over the years, argued that Boeing no longer produces a similar product to the Bombardier jets.
Delta Air Lines said it will not pay a 300 percent tariff the U.S. government recently recommended be placed on Bombardier jets amid a trade dispute between the Canadian manufacturer and its competitor Boeing.
The U.S. Commerce Department has upheld disputed Bombardier jets are subject to duties of 300 percent.
Those include luxury properties in New York and California, paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, and a Bombardier jet.

Not exact matches

When the United States Department of Commerce announced it would be imposing a 219 % tax on jets built by Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier on Tuesday night, the outcry was swift.
So first we had British Prime Minister Theresa May forced into promises there would be no cuts there, then, once the Airbus - Bombardier deal landed, it was Airbus's turn to promise no job losses associated with the production of its A319 jets, which are similar to the CSeries.
And two, it adds some serious marketing muscle to Bombardier's 130 - seater jet, which has burned up $ 6 billion in development costs for Bombardier and its generous benefactors at various levels of government in Canada.
Bombardier hopes the fuel - efficient aircraft that's been in development for a decade will be a game - changer for the company, whose regional jets face an uncertain future amid increased competition.
Turns out, private travel so appealed to him he not only renamed his Bombardier The Indispensable, he went ahead and bought jet operator NetJets in 1998.
Bombardier is also the world's leading producer of business jets.
Sure, Bombardier makes great planes but it was not able to crack the market for regional jets in a significant way by itself.
Boeing had complained to the Trump administration that Canadian airplane manufacturer Bombardier sold narrow - body C - Series jets to Delta below market prices and received unfair government subsidies.
On the assembly line at Bombardier's Toronto Global Express jet plant.
In a research note, Newman added that «sluggish small - cabin business jet sales» followed the release of Bombardier's previous Learjet models, the 70 and 75, and have led the company to «trim its resources.»
Delta was swept up in the dispute because it agreed to purchase at least 75 of the C Series jets from Bombardier in 2016.
On the Learjet division, with still no real visibility on the upturn in the light cabin business jet segment, Bombardier can scale back its sales force appropriately,» he wrote in a report, adding there was likely excess employees from the completed conversion to the Learjet 70/75.
To that end, it is building a large maintenance shop in Singapore, and Flying Colours has negotiated a contract to provide exclusive customization services for Bombardier's Learjet and Challenger jets out of the same facility.
By successfully bringing the C919 into mass production, Comac would join the select club of companies with the technical expertise to build large passenger jets including Boeing of the US, Europe's Airbus, Canada's Bombardier and Russia's Sukhoi and Tupolev.
Delta says it looks forward to getting its C Series jets after Airbus reached a deal with disputed manufacturer Bombardier.
Boeing Co said that Bombardier Inc's CSeries jets could still be hit with high US import duties, even if they are assembled in Alabama.
The case stems from an April 2016 sale of 75 CSeries jets to Delta Air Lines Inc. (dal) Boeing claims Delta paid $ 20 million per plane, well below an estimated cost of $ 33 million and what Bombardier charges in Canada.
To book a sale this large, Bombardier likely had to offer VistaJet a sizable discount from the list price on individual jets.
Nonetheless, Bombardier Aerospace has over 20 years of experience in managing global supply chains, mainly within its business - jet division with the Challenger 300 and Global lines.
During my visit, I'm not allowed inside the two buildings where Bombardier is developing its Learjet 85 and Global 7000 and 8000 business jets, product lines that will use new composite - construction technology to reduce weight and improve fuel efficiency.
In response to a trade case filed by the American jet maker Boeing, the United States Commerce Department ruled that Bombardier's CSeries aircraft, a smaller, regional aircraft that entered service last year, had received subsidies of 219.63 percent of the plane's sales price, and it said it would begin collecting duties equivalent to that amount.
The U.S. Department of Commerce decided this week to impose a 219 % duty on Bombardier's CSeries jet.
The freed - up space seemed like a dare to head office to fill the vacuum — and the facility was soon given the job of producing the rear fuselage (that is, the tails), for Bombardier's Global 5000 and 6000 business jets as well.
It arrived on the heels of earlier large business - jet sales to VistaJet and NetJets, and firmed up Bombardier's leadership in the long - distance luxury plane market.
«Boeing's challenge is an authentic business decision, yet Ottawa seems untroubled about once again playing Sir Galahad, not only intervening on Bombardier's behalf, but also putting the problem - plagued effort to buy new fighter jets on the line, solely for the benefit of a privileged Quebec family and the people they employ,» Kelly McParland wrote in the National Post.
The Canadian - made regional jet flew its first flight in 1991 and its last in 2010, when it was flown here to be donated to the school, by executives of Bombardier Aerospace.
Although both product lines are in the late stages of their development (Bombardier obtained the permit for the Learjet 85's first test flight in February), they both follow the CSeries jet in the company's release queue.
That will more than triple the price of the new jet, chilling Bombardier's future sales and potentially giving Boeing more space to expand into the market for smaller aircraft.
Bombardier's aerospace rival has eaten away at its leadership in regional jets and is developing an updated offering to partially compete with the C Series.
The likes of Canada's Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer will look to defeat each other in the smaller - sized jet market, but the headline battle in commercial aviation is conducted between Europe's Airbus and the U.S.» Boeing.
The US Department of Commerce threatened to levy a 299.45 % tariff on the C Series jets after Boeing alleged Bombardier used Canadian government subsidies to lower its prices for Delta.
The regional carrier caters primarily to business travellers between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, but since launching in 2006, Porter has grown to service 19 destinations, mostly concentrated in eastern Canada and the U.S.. By 2016, it wants to fly Bombardier CSeries jets to more far - flung locales, including Calgary, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Miami.
CEO Alain Bellemare said he believes the efforts to cut costs will help revive Bombardier, which has appealed for federal aid as it struggles to sell its signature CSeries passenger jet.
The CSeries is Bombardier's new generation of aircraft for commercial airlines, in development for more than a decade as an alternative to smaller models of passenger jets built by rivals Boeing and Airbus.
Bombardier has owned the Downsview site in northern Toronto since the early 90s, when it bought Boeing's commuter jets division.
In an effort to escape what could be crippling import duties, Bombardier has said it intends to build the planes in Alabama, where its newfound partner Airbus produces single - aisle jets.
The Commerce Department first recommended the duties on Bombardier's CSeries jets, earlier this autumn after Boeing complained that the planes were dumped in the U.S. below cost and that the company received unfair government subsidies in Canada.
Bombardier plans to build the planes in Mobile, Alabama, where Airbus assembles narrow - body jets.
In September, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had threatened not to buy the jets from Boeing unless it dropped its suit against Bombardier.
Boeing has complained that Bombardier had received unfair government subsidies and dumped narrow - body jets below cost to No. 2 U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines.
Troubles have been brewing in recent years due to difficulties with Bombardier's new family of commercial jets, the CSeries.
As the airlines attempted to stave off bankruptcy, they began buying a repurposed corporate jet manufactured by Bombardier, the CRJ200.
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