>Depending on how you count, there are just two to four builders of large commercial aircraft (Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, and now COMAC).
Where is Russian Sukhoi?
Where is Russian Sukhoi?
It will be interesting to see if UAC emerges as a serious competitor to Boeing and Airbus (and COMAC) in the near future.
Furthermore, the sanctions demonstrated that there is sovereign risk associated with purchasing Western airliners.
Finally, IIRC the airline's regrets were largely related to the poor early reliability of the French-built parts, specifically combustors, for the Superjet engines. It remains to be seen how the new Russian engines will perform.
And airlines in most countries have far more to worry about buying aircraft whose maintenance depends on a faraway pariah state and that are not certified in Europe than they do about US sanctions targeting them. And even if they do, still not necessarily more difficult to circumvent the sanctions (as Mahan Air did with wet leased 747s) and access a worldwide parts supply and MRO market than rely on being able to maintain and sell on your Russian aircraft at reasonable price and timeliness...
It would also be surprising if the new Russian engines were competitive on performance with new Western engines, and likewise with other components they've had to switch to domestic manufacture for.
By that you mean a state sanctioned by the US and the EU, which together comprise about 10% of the world's population.
Even Iran is flying old Western aircraft
Trust me, we're not rushing out to buy shitty Russian aircraft as a hedge.
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If the Russians manage to do this, it would be another example of the stupidity of the sanctions.
I bet COMAC is cheering them on too.
The Wikipedia page on Bombardier is ... not especially clear about present ownership, though apparently debt incurred developing the CSeries (Airbus 220) aircraft lead to spin-outs of much of the core business, including large shares (50% and then another acquisition) of CSeries ops by Airbus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Inc.>
The top of the article seems to portray Bombardier as an independent company, other bits not so much.
Shortly thereafter, Airbus came in and acquired a controlling stake of Bombardier Aviation, took over the CS planes, and agreed to manufacture them in the US (Airbus manufacturing is in the EU).
The way it played out seemed to me as if Boeing and Airbus conspired to kill off a viable competitor after they saw how well received the CS100 and CS300 were.
This is all on top of the overall financial troubles the company was facing.
I could be entirely off the mark, so I will let those more knowledgeable chime in from here.
De Havilland was owned by Bombardier, but Viking Air bought De Havilland's designs and Dash 8, and renamed the holding company De Havilland.