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China Eastern Will Replace Airbus A321 With COMAC C919 On Hong Kong Flights

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.

The C919 is now flying, but it will be some time before it becomes significant in major airline fleets.

A small Brazilian cargo and charter airline, Total Linhas Aereas, might be lining up an order for the COMAC C9…

Apart from China’s airlines, only the Brunei-based carrier GallopAir has ordered the COMAC C919.

Despite the hype, it may be years before COMAC receives EASA certification, let alone FAA certification.

COMAC has cleared one more step to get the C919 certified in Europe.

China seeks to break into the commercial jet engine market with its domestically-produced CJ-1000A engine.