We flew first class with the Delta Airbus jet that Boeing attempted to keep out of the United States. Here is what it looked like. (DAL)

• Last Thursday, Delta Air Lines inaugurated its all-new Airbus A220 jetliner on the New York-Boston and Dallas flights.
• The A220 began as the Bombardier C Series but was renamed after Airbus took over the program.
• We flew into the economy cabin of the plane during the launch flight. We are now coming back to experience the first clbad cabin of Delta Airbus A220.

Last Thursday, Delta Air Lines inaugurated its all-new Airbus A220 jetliner on the New York-Boston and Dallas flights.

It was the long awaited American plane for the Canadian airliner. The airline originally planned to introduce its A220 fleet at the end of January, but was forced to delay the inaugural flight due to the lack of federal regulators operating during the government shutdown.

The A220 is a state-of-the-art carbon composite airliner with 100 to 150 seats. The aircraft entered service at SWISS and Air Baltic in 2016. Delta is the first in the Americas to operate the aircraft on commercial flights. Unlike the larger families of Boeing 737MAX and Airbus A320neo, the A220 is a white sheet model that does not rely on an existing cell.

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The A220 was born in 2004 when the Canadian Bombardier, manufacturer of private jets and small regional aircraft, decided that it was time to make the leap in the major leagues.

In the early 2010s, the new Bombardier jet suffered development delays and the resulting financial difficulties forced the company to request a $ 1 billion bailout from the Québec government in 2015.

In 2016, Bombardier ordered an order for 75 Series C jetliners from Delta Air Lines. A year later, Boeing filed a complaint with the United States Department of Commerce and the United States International Trade Commission, alleging that the order for the Delta C Series was made possible only by Abnormally low prices supported by grants from the Canadian government.

In total, Bombardier and Delta faced a 299.45% tariff on any Canadian-built C Series aircraft exported to the United States. Facing the possibility of losing the most important sequence in the history of the C Series program, Bombardier has turned to Boeing's biggest enemy, Airbus.

Less than a month after the rate announcement, Bombardier sold 50.01% of its popular airliner program to Airbus without any initial cash investment from the European airline giant. ;aviation.

In the summer of 2018, the Bombardier C Series was officially renamed Airbus A220. In January, Delta ordered an additional 15 A220s, bringing the total to 90 aircraft.

Business Insider was fortunate to experience the economy cabin aboard the A220 during his first flight with Delta. Now we are seeing the plane, this time in first clbad.

Here is closer.

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