Huh, I'd not heard that.

The Wikipedia page on Bombardier is ... not especially clear about present ownership, though apparently debt incurred developing the CSeries (Airbus 220) aircraft lead to spin-outs of much of the core business, including large shares (50% and then another acquisition) of CSeries ops by Airbus.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Inc.>

The top of the article seems to portray Bombardier as an independent company, other bits not so much.

My recollection is that Boeing essentially had insane tariffs applied on US imports of Bombardier commercial aircraft after Delta made a large order & was preparing for delivery.

Shortly thereafter, Airbus came in and acquired a controlling stake of Bombardier Aviation, took over the CS planes, and agreed to manufacture them in the US (Airbus manufacturing is in the EU).

The way it played out seemed to me as if Boeing and Airbus conspired to kill off a viable competitor after they saw how well received the CS100 and CS300 were.

This is all on top of the overall financial troubles the company was facing.

I could be entirely off the mark, so I will let those more knowledgeable chime in from here.

I like your take, FWIW.

CS300 are the best aircraft I have ever flown in. A lot of room, very good air inside, very nice design aesthetic.

Bombardier makes only private jets now. The C-series was sold to Airbus and is now the 220.. Q-Series turboprops were sold to De Havilland. The CRJ-series regional jets were sold to Mitsubishi.

De Havilland was owned by Bombardier, but Viking Air bought De Havilland's designs and Dash 8, and renamed the holding company De Havilland.

Looks like they only kept the business jet division, selling the rest to different buyers including Airbus. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Inc.