{"id":170502,"date":"2025-01-28T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/vietjet-air-leasing-2-comac-c909s\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:00:15","slug":"why-vietjet-air-is-leasing-2-comac-c909s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=170502","title":{"rendered":"Why VietJet Air Is Leasing 2 COMAC C909s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254932\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/vietjet\/\"  >Vietjet<\/a><\/span> is one of the low-cost carriers of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"185433\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/vietnam\/\"  >Vietnam<\/a><\/span>, offering a large number of flights domestically and around the Asia-Pacific region. Vietjet&#8217;s fleet is exclusively made up of 94 Airbus aircraft, including the A320, A321, and A330 aircraft (although it has placed a massive order for             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739420\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/737-max-8\/\"  >Boeing 737 MAX 8<\/a><\/span> aircraft). Most striking is Vietjet&#8217;s decision to operate two         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034291\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/video\/comac-to-rebrand-arj21-aircraft-as-c909\/\" >Chinese-made COMAC C909 (formerly ARJ21<\/a><\/span>) regional jets from China. While this could be the beginning of a shift to purchasing Chinese aircraft, the move stems from a unique set of circumstances that arose for Vietjet around the increased travel demand for the Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietjet is operating two wet leased C909s from China to service its Con Dao Islands after failing to secure E190s in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,10346,1002,15079,567,962],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-chengdu-airlines","category-comac","category-comac-c909","category-guides","category-vietjet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170503,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170502\/revisions\/170503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}