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After C-Series stall, what next for Bombardier?

Bombardier Aerospace’s decision to suspend its long beleaguered C Series has naturally raised questions about what direction the company will take now that

By Gregory Polek • Senior Editor

December 1, 2006

Bombardier Aerospace’s decision to suspend its long beleaguered C Series has naturally raised questions about what direction the company will take now that it has spent more than a year and $100 million on a still undefined program. The answer likely won’t come for another few months, as the company redirects most of the financial and human resources once dedicated to the C Series to other areas, including studies into a possible stretch of the 86-seat CRJ900, labeled internally as the CRJ900X, along with a longer variant of the 78-seat Q400 turboprop.

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