With China forecast to overtake the US as the world’s biggest aviation market in 2024, there will be a large domestic customer base for the C919, if all goes to plan and the first aircraft roll off the production line in 2019.
Chinese airlines and leasing companies have placed more than 500 orders for the 158-174 seat C919, which is designed to compete with Boeing and Airbus’s workhorses of short-haul aviation. It is being built by Comac, a state-owned group spun out of China’s military aviation industry in 2008, with many of the most important parts sourced from European and US companies such as GE, Safran and Honeywell.
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