Comac

Vietnamese airline Vietjet to resume use of Chinese-made Comac planes: sources

C909, which seats up to 90 passengers, has been operating commercially since 2016

To show the world its planes are in active use, Beijing has leveraged its relationships with regional allies like Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia to place C909s with airlines there.

Brunei clears Chinese-made aircraft for local airlines, boosting planemaker Comac

The state-owned planemaker eyes global rivals but lacks key Western approvals and major airline orders

The C919 is meant to take on the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 Max.

China’s Comac said to slash delivery targets for its C919 jet

The Chinese aircraft maker is seeing bottlenecks in virtually all key parts of its supply chain, hampering its ability to produce jets at a steady pace, the sources say

The license suspensions were among a wide swathe of new restrictions imposed on US exports to China in recent weeks, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies moved from retaliatory tariffs to disrupting each other’s supply chains.

US lifts license suspensions for GE jet engines to China’s COMAC

THE US Department of Commerce informed GE Aerospace on Thursday that it was once again allowed to ship jet engines to China’s COMAC, lifting license suspensions issued several weeks ago, according to ...

Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary said Trump’s tariffs could threaten 330 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that his airline has on order, which have a list price of more than US$30 billion.

Ryanair threatens to cancel huge Boeing order if tariffs raise prices

The threat by Europe’s largest low-cost carrier is the latest sign of a potential reordering of the global aerospace industry

The Chinese maker’s C919 is a single-aisle jet designed to compete with the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 families and has a capacity for 158 to 192 passengers.

China stares down Boeing parts shortage as Comac stockpiles

The C929 is still in development and the C919 has not been given the green light by other aviation safety regulators to fly outside of the country or Hong Kong, meaning it’s only used by Chinese airli...

Vietnam’s aviation regulator delays approval for VietJet’s lease of Comac C909 jets, reflecting cautious approach towards aircraft certified solely by China and Indonesia.

Comac jets for Vietnam show China’s push for international market

Comac is actively engaging with airlines, regulators, and aerospace firms across Asia, aiming to have the C919 operating in South-east Asia by next year

China Eastern, the first to launch the C919, commands a fleet of nine C919s that service various domestic routes.

China Eastern to debut C919 on Shanghai-Hong Kong route in January

CHINA Eastern Airlines will launch the first commercial cross-border service operated by C919 between Shanghai and Hong Kong on Jan 1, state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) said on Thursday (Dec...

A model of Comac's C919 plane on display at the second China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Nov 28, 2024.
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