The combination of Tarriff's, and coming new Tax policies forces Bombardier to move C-Series production from High-tax Canada to the U.S.
In a very short time, Mobile, Al could be making more aircraft than Witchita or Seattle! And unlike Boeing, the parts for the C-Series are largely sourced IN AMERICA.
Don’t count the chickens until they are hatched. Last time around, the new Air Force tankers were supposed to be built there, until Chicago based Boeing applied some Chicago style politics to the program, and got the contract cancelled. As Boeing ran into a series of problems with their proposal, the Air Force is still without the tankers.
Watch for more politics out of Chicago.
The plant, planned for Mobile, Ala.,
This can’t be true. Senator Patty Murray said Alabamians don’t have the smarts to build stuff.
“I have stood on the line in Everett, Washington, where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes,” Murray said in a Dec. 7 interview with National Public Radio. “I would challenge anybody to tell me that they’ve stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.”