Lets be honest, none of us knows the long term strategy of the CSA management. My guess, and its only that, is that the airline is opting for the flexabilty that the commonality of the Airbus family offers across virtually its entire range, surely if your looking at an almost total fleet rollover in the coming years this has to be a major consideration for CSA or anyone else. Boeing simply does not have this level of compatability across its types with the possible exception of the 737 family, and even some of those versions are getting “long in the tooth”. For this reason alone I’m not surprised at the decision, Tarom made a similar one I seem to remember. IMO its indicative of the work that Boeing still has to do to secure orders of this kind, its too glib to call it political.
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