CAN BOEING DIG ITSELF OUT?
Everything looked so promising for Boeing just a few years ago. In 2017, the Liberal government came this close to purchasing 18 Boeing Super Hornets in order to plug a "capability gap". Such a move would have almost certainly have given a leg up on its competition to replace the CF-18 fleet as a whole. Boeing could have easily turned that "interim" order of 18 fighters into 88, keeping its St. Louis factory busy and scoring a much needed win against Lockheed Martin. Instead of taking the easy win, Boeing decided to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory . We all know the story by now. Boeing used its influence with Trump White House to impose massive tariffs on Bombardier's promising but troubled C-Series. This decision was eventually overturned , but by then the damage was already done. Bombardier had little option but to hand over the C-Series to Airbus and has since announced plans to exit commercial aviation altogether . Needl...