On this episode of Avtoc, Mitsubishi wants to buy the CRJ program from Bombardier, and Jason and Seth Miller Checkin

from Seoul and the International Air Transport Association's annual general meeting. Hello and welcome to episode 59 of Avtoc.

I am Ian Petchenik here, as always with...

Jason Erbenowitz and hello again, Ian.

How long's it been?

Well, it's been through the magic of recording and editing, it's been a few days since our last section of the

podcast, which will air later in this episode of the podcast.

Weird.

How are you?

You've had quite the journey that we'll hear about later on in the show.

Yeah, I'm tired. I want to go to bed so let's get this over with but it's been a good trip.

Fair enough. So let's just dive right in the big news of the day is that Mitsubishi

Heavy Industries is in talks to buy the CRJ program from Bombardier, which I mean is pretty big news.

I mean it's news in the way that Bombardier doesn't want it and they'll probably give it away for real cheap.

I just did not expect Mitsubishi to buy it.

I don't really understand it.

I think as John wrote, Mitsubishi is being sued by Bombardier about some potential corporate secrets that may have been divulged to Mitsubishi, but does this spell the end of the MRJ, which seems to be a never-ending engineering process with no results in the end? I don't know, but they've renamed it to, what's the new name of the MRJ the space ghost or space jet

sure whatever that that makes total sense and doesn't sound stupid at all but sure it's

interesting because nobody really seems to want to buy CRJs. The 900 doesn't really, isn't a huge seller. The 1,000 may is not, may as well not exist at all.

I can't remember the last time of 700 is sold.

So guess they just want to potentially buy up

the intellectual value and property of the CRJ line because it's not really doing

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