The flight marks a milestone for China’s efforts to become more self-reliant. Read more at straitstimes.com.
on its first commercial flight, marking the homegrown plane’s entry into passenger service and a milestone for China’s efforts to become more self-reliant.
After the nearly two-and-a-half hour flight to Beijing and a turnaround of 1 hour and 40 minutes, the plane is scheduled to fly back to Shanghai.Mr Lv Boyuan, a 21-year-old student and aviation enthusiast, was at the Shanghai airport on Sunday to catch a flight to Chengdu where he planned to take a C919 flight back to Shanghai the day after.
The C919 had received 1,035 orders from 32 customers by the end of 2022, according to COMAC data. This year, a company official told media that the company had received more than 1,200 orders for the jet. Mr Li Hanming, an independent expert on China’s aviation industry, said most of the C919‘s orders were letters of intent from domestic customers. Its few foreign buyers include lessor GE Capital Aviation Services Ltd.Mr Greg Waldron, Asia managing editor of industry publication FlightGlobal, said the international market for the C919 is questionable given that neither EASA nor FAA have certificated the aircraft.
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