RE:RE:Response from Bombardier re Jason Air one Blogpierrelebel wrote: uptown59 - "This is a response from Bombardier "
Bombardier has always had a policy to quote "list prices" when calculating the value of a contract.
Everyone knows airplanes do not sell at list price but are deeply discounted from whatever "list price" is.
Back in 2016 when Bombardier announced to deal for 75 firm orders C Series (CS100), the news release stated:
"Based on the list price of the CS100 aircraft, the firm order is valued at approximately $5.6 billion US."
That works out to about US$74,600,000 per plane (list).
We all know that Bombardier took a huge writeoff to allow for the sale of these planes (and the Air Canada contract) below cost.
In the dispute with Boeing, documents were presented showing a selling price of slightly less than US$20,000,000 per plane. (estimated cost to produce each airplane was established at US$33 billion).
In conclusion whatever pricing information provided by Bombardier must be understood to be based on "list price", not actual selling price to the airplane buyer.
Bombardier
did not provide any documents concerning the price they sold the planes. I recall and they denied they were sold at $20 millions (true or false) telling they do not say the price to the competition. Try to find an article about your claim, you will not find any.