Delta, Bombardier renegotiating delivery clause in CS100 deal

Delta Air Lines has asked Bombardier to guarantee all 75 CS100s ordered in April 2016 will be assembled in Mobile, Alabama, instead of Canada, a top airline executive says. The request puts further pressure on Bombardier’s plan to open a second final assembly line in Mobile after consummating a deal with Airbus to take a majority ownership stake in the CSeries programme. Negotiations between Delta and Bombardier remain ongoing and could conclude as early as January, Bombardier officials said in testimony at a US International Trade Commission hearing Dec 18. Delta does not have rights under the existing contract to refuse delivery of CS100s from Mirabel, but that part of the agreement has been reopened in ongoing talks with Bombardier, says a Delta executive. <br/>