United will not re-evaluate CSeries after Airbus deal

United Airlines does not plan to re-evaluate the Bombardier CSeries for its fleet, following the announcement of plans by Airbus to buy a majority stake in the aircraft programme. "There's nothing about this new deal that would change our view of the aircraft," said Gerry Laderman, treasurer of the carrier, at the Airline Economics Growth Frontiers conference in New York on 19 October. "We're just not right now looking at the small narrowbody market." Airbus and Bombardier announced that the European airframer would take a 50.01% stake in the CSeries programme, as well as open a new assembly line at its Mobile, Alabama, plant to circumvent possible import tariffs on the aircraft, on 16 October. United considered the CSeries as part of a small narrowbody aircraft campaign in late 2015. However, it opted for 65 Boeing 737-700s over the Canadian aircraft in early 2016. "The reason we didn't pick the CSeries when we were looking at small narrowbodies was the economics on the aircraft we picked were better economics," says Laderman on the aircraft campaign. The 737-700, while slightly larger than the CS100, offered United commonality with its fleet of 310 73<br/>