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UPDATE: Hold on to your wallets Canada ! Bombardier is seeking more money again for a another new aerospace project ! with the so-called “game changer” CSeries an absolute sales disaster with only 318 orders after +8 years of sales ? and right after announcing its 6th wave of layoffs (another 7,500 are to go by 2018) since January, 2014 (34 months ago) for a total of 21,450 jobs gone ! Meanwhile Bombardier’s CEO admits company nearly went bankrupt in 2015, and it now has $3.4 billion in cash, $2.5 billion (74%) came from the Government of Quebec this year (aka bailout money), without Quebec they would have only $900 million in cash today and be close to bankruptcy. Embraer and Boeing are taking the “illegal state aid” case to the WTO. With President-elect Trump coming in, he’s ready to “defend” US corporations from illegal and unfair state aid backed competitors, and don’t be surprised if he tears up NAFTA and hits the CSeries with new tariffs, a perfect scenario for his PR. Everything in decline at Bombardier Aerospace today, the CSeries has only 318 orders (of which 2 have been delivered), what happened to the existing Commercial Aircraft Market Forecast that claims 7,000 deliveries over 20 years (350 per year) ? all BS, in fact Ascend Consultancy forecasts only 1,340 CSeries deliveries over 20 years (67 per year), down 81% on Bombardier’s “fantasy” forecast. No one has noticed, but with only 34 x Q400 orders in backlog and only 60 CRJ’s in backlog, both programs will run out of orders at current production rates of 2.5 per month and 4.2 per month respectively by January, 2018, and with only 13 options for the Q400 and 18 for the CRJ, 2018 looks like the year the Downsview plant gets closed down and everything gets moved to Quebec, another Cartierville Airport deal in the works ? Business jets deliveries are down 25%, and the old Learjets and the 40 year old Challenger 650 (4th variation of Canadair CL-600, which also gave birth to the CRJ line) are down as well, along with the Global G5000/6000’s, NONE of the current products will be around by 2020, except the CSeries (maybe), the new G7000, and possibly still the Challenger 350, but it won’t be a $15 billion a year business, at best $5.5 billion, and I still believe Combardier is coming (China’s COMAC buying Bombardier Aerospace).

OMG, please NO more money for Bombardier’s projects ! Look the company is in deep trouble, just open your eyes and stop listening to the financial “experts” and Bombardier’s BS PR about being “on track” for recovery ? seriously its a disaster and read on to find out why. The recent 7,500 announced layoffs which … Continue reading →