with the airbus corporate strength behind it, airinsight anticipate the cseries market share of the 100-149 seat market over 20 years will increase from 40% of 5,636 aircraft (5636*0.4 round 0 sales) to 55-60%, around 3,010 aircraft. supplier costs could be cut by 30-40% by airbus's market power, as a 10% procurement costs decrease would add six gross margin points to the program. boeing was seriously concerned that it could not match fleet package deals enabled by the partnership. a cs500 stretch would allow airbus to enlarge its a320-family replacement to better compete with the proposed boeing new midsize airplane. airbus will assist in marketing and servicing.