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by 0xffff2 840 days ago
My point being that they are such small companies that they weren't even viable as independent businesses. It's a joke to think that they could even remotely scale up to a viable Boeing competitor in this century.
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Airbus is 53 years old.

Bombardier competes in the same segment as Cessna and Gulfstream and designed a plane that is actively in competition with the 737.

A lot can happen in a century, especially when the government puts its thumbs on the scale, which is the rule rather than the exception when it comes to commercial passenger planes.