Delta remains committed to its Bombardier CSeries order, following plans by Airbus to buy a majority stake in the programme. "We love the product and we can't wait to bring it to market," says CE Ed Bastian. His comments come two days after Airbus announced plans to buy a 50.01% stake in the CSeries programme and a week after he said that Delta, which has a firm order for 75 CS100s, definitely planned to take delivery of the aircraft without paying any of the possible US Department of Commerce tariffs. The Airbus investment, which includes a new CSeries assembly line in Mobile, Alabama that airframer executives expect will allow the aircraft to avoid import duties, follows a proposed 300% tariff by US authorities on the CSeries after a complaint by Boeing. The deal came together without any input from Delta, says Bastian, though he acknowledges being aware of the discussions prior to the announcement. He says he is "optimistic" that the Airbus-Bombardier deal, which will see the Canadian airframer's stake in the programme reduced to just 31%, will minimise the political concerns with the CSeries.<br/>