the cseries competed with the smaller a320 variants. airbus coo-customers, john leahy, did not ignore the cseries and allowed it to grow, as boeing had done with airbus, but decided to aggressively compete against bombardier. airbus dropped the price of the a320 in head-to-head competition and successfully blocked bombardier from several deals. the 2010 order for 40 cs300s and 40 options from republic airways holdingsthen owner of exclusive a319/320 operator frontier airlines also pushed airbus into the a320neo re-engine.