Bombardier Aerospace (BBA, Montréal Trudeau) has removed Republic Airways Holdings' order for forty A220-300s from its production schedule pending clarification of the firm's bankruptcy proceedings.

Republic placed the order back in 2010 to assist then subsidiary Frontier Airlines (F9, Denver International) expand its capacity following its merger with Midwest Airlines (Milwaukee General Mitchell). However, Frontier was sold off to venture capital firm Indigo Partners LLC in 2013 leaving Republic with an order for a jet which had little compatibility with its business model.

Republic has used its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings to shed unwanted aircraft types with suspicions the CSeries order may be shed as well.

Thus far, the US capacity provider has rid its Republic Airlines (Indianapolis International) and Shuttle America (Fort Wayne International) subsidiaries of their entire Dash 8-400 fleets while whittling down their E140 and E145 regional jet fleets.