during competition investigation, the partners were to operate separately and clean teams with privileged access to competitively sensitive data but separated from their management planned the integration, evaluating synergies and preparing communications to regulators. antitrust approval aimed at finalisation by summer 2018 farnborough air show to allow a marketing push. it was planned to rebrand the cseries as an airbus model, with a200 suggested as a family name and a210/a230 for the cs100 and cs300. as the clearances process neared completion, there were hopes that the takeover could have been completed by the end of may 2018, accelerating orders and cost-reduction efforts.