A replica of the Airbus A220-100.

Engine type: Pratt & Whitney PW1519G,PW1521G&PW1524G

Credit to @GalacticaAsia for his original A220-300

About the history of Airbus A220-100 & -300

In September 2017, the sales of the C-series airliner suffered a surprise attack. Boeing filed an anti-dumping lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce, accusing Bombardier of dumping the C-series airliner to Delta Airlines at a price far below the market price, seriously harming the sales of the Boeing 737 series airliner, and demanding an anti-dumping duty of 80% on the C-series airliner. However, some insiders pointed out that Boeing does not manufacture the 100 seat medium and small regional airliner launched by Bombardier for the regional aviation market, which does not overlap with the shortened series of 737. In addition, as an early customer of Bombardier, Delta Airlines has indicated that it does not purchase the Boeing 737. According to industry habits, the development of airliners will be customized according to the needs of the route, The airline and the manufacturer have worked closely together earlier, and it is obvious that the C-series does not win by the discount price alone. However, on October 7, the US Department of Commerce immediately announced that it would impose a punitive tariff of up to 300% on the C-series airliner. The extreme measure once caused diplomatic tension between the United States and Canada. When many people thought that the C-series passenger opportunity would withdraw from the United States and lose the world's largest passenger aircraft market, the situation changed unexpectedly. On October 16, Airbus, a European competitor, joined the competition. In contrast to Boeing's view that the C-series is at the same level as the 737, Airbus regards the C-series as a supplement to the A320. As Airbus's experience in regional aircraft is still blank, and its A318 series is not selling well, Airbus and Bombardier soon reached a cooperation agreement: Bombardier transferred 50.01% of the control of the C-series project at a symbolic price of $1, and Airbus became the largest shareholder; In return, Bombardier is allowed to use Airbus's base in Mobile, Alabama, to carry out final assembly of C-series airliners sold to American customers, so as to avoid the punitive tariff of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Airbus will also help Bombardier promote C-series airliners
To be serious, Bombardier specially sent a CS300 prototype to Toulouse for a group photo with Airbus A320neo prototype In the case of such a subversive result, the US government changed its previous attitude on January 26, 2018 after Airbus took the initiative. Four members of the US International Trade Commission unanimously ruled that Bombardier Aerospace C-Series did not cause damage to the US, and overturned the conclusion of imposing punitive tariffs The Commission's report was subsequently made public in February On March 22, Boeing said it would not continue to appeal the ruling
However, this did not break up the cooperation between Airbus and Bombardier. On July 10, 2020, Airbus and Bombardier announced important news in Toulouse: Bombardier sold all shares of the C-series to Airbus at a price of $591 million, and the C-series regional airliner will be renamed "Airbus A220" directly to join the Airbus family, and its two models CS100 and CS300 will be renamed "A220-100" and "A220-300" respectively, So that the company can immediately lay out the regional passenger aircraft market with a distance of 100 people. After the acquisition was incorporated into Airbus, the company used the long-term brand support, so that the C series immediately obtained a large order for 60 A220-300 passenger aircraft from JetBlue with the help of the Airbus sales network. With the previous order, the number of A220 to be delivered has exceeded 400. Although Bombardier lost its complete controlling right, the C series finally came back from the dead, Airbus is more optimistic about predicting that the whole market will need more than 3000 A220 aircraft in the next 20 years, including the U.S. market.

Have a nice flight!