{"id":351765,"date":"2026-01-19T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/chinas-comac-jets-may-be-headed-for-europe-as-easa-confirms-test-flights\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:54:16","slug":"chinas-comac-jets-may-be-headed-for-europe-as-easa-confirms-test-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=351765","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s COMAC Jets May Be Headed For Europe As EASA Confirms Test Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Chinese aerospace sector, the homegrown<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255825\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/comac\/\"  >COMAC<\/a><\/span> C919 is viewed as the great hope when it comes to breaking the Airbus-Boeing manufacturing duopoly that currently dominates the narrowbody twinjet space. The aircraft has been in service domestically for several years now, but has struggled to make much of an impact on an international level. However, things could be about to change on this front, at least in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tests are said to have taken place last November.<\/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":[396,118,1002,2036,1038,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-china","category-comac","category-comac-c919","category-easa","category-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351765","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=351765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351767,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351765\/revisions\/351767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}