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COMAC Aims For C919 EU Certification This Year & Southeast Asian Flights By 2026

As the C919 gains a solid foothold in China, COMAC is aiming to expand into the Southeast Asian market.

GalopAir, the only airline outside of China to have ordered the COMAC C919, launched its operations with a China Southern Airlines aircraft.

COMAC has already secured a preliminary agreement from Brunei-based GallopAir in September 2023.

China Eastern Airlines has filed the COMAC C919’s first scheduled services outside mainland China.

China Eastern Airlines has filed the COMAC C919’s first scheduled services outside mainland China.

While the C919 airframe is Chinese-built, the engines and much of its avionics and flight control systems are Western-built.

The COMAC C919 is built with Chinese-Western joint ventures and would likely be vulnerable to hypothetical US sanctions.

China Eastern’s 9th C919 debuts onboard Wi-Fi, but Air China was first to integrate this feature, leading the way in domestic aviation tech.

Airbus, Boeing, and COMAC are set to compete for Vietnam Airlines’ order of 50 narrowbody jets in 2025.

The planes will operate for one of the airline’s subsidiaries.