Wait a second. Did Bombardier have other offers for the C Series? It's a great plane but the circumstances of the sale are unknown to me. It happened so fast.
As far as I know, they had no other choice. Boeing was rumored to be working with them for a while on an acquisition, but then abandoned them and left them in a very vulnerable position. Smaller companies without lots of working capital cannot absorb a big strategic change like that. They had probably already had discussions with Airbus that made closing it out much quicker than any alternative.
blackeyeblitzar|1 year ago