China Express Air compra 100 aeromobili della Comac.

Giuseppe Sandro Mela.

2020-06-15.

«China Express Airlines said on Wednesday it had signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) to buy a total of 100 ARJ21 and C919 passenger aircraft for delivery from 2020»

«The planned purchases of the domestically-developed aircraft are a boost to state planemaker COMAC at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is devastating global travel demand, prompting many airlines to cancel or defer aircraft orders with top manufacturers Airbus and Boeing»

«By the end of May, COMAC had delivered 25 ARJ21-700 regional jets, according to state media reports»

«The country’s three biggest state-owned airlines last year announced deals to each purchase 35 ARJ21 jets.»

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Della Comac ci si era già interessati nel passato.

Cina. C919 ed An-225. Si sviluppa l’industria aeronautica cinese.

Primo volo per il C919, decolla la sfida cinese a Boeing e Airbus.

Cina. Il C919 effettua il secondo volo di test. 730 velivoli già prenotati.

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L’oligopolio di Airbus e Boeing sta volgendo al termine.

Certamente la Comac non è ancora in grado di fare una seria concorrenza a quei colossi mondiali: occorre darle il tempo di crescere e fare esperienza.

Constatiamo solo un fatto lapalissiano: prima non c’era ed adesso c’è.

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China Express Air to buy 100 of COMAC’s Chinese made planes.

China Express Airlines said on Wednesday it had signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) to buy a total of 100 ARJ21 and C919 passenger aircraft for delivery from 2020.

The Guizhou-based regional airline did not provide details of the number of each model it wanted to buy, but said the two sides needed to hammer out the contractual details later on, a corporate filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange showed.

The planned purchases of the domestically-developed aircraft are a boost to state planemaker COMAC at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is devastating global travel demand, prompting many airlines to cancel or defer aircraft orders with top manufacturers Airbus and Boeing.

China Express and COMAC will also deepen cooperation on aircraft design and optimization, maintenance and services, and overseas market expansion, especially in countries that have signed up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and African markets, the carrier said.

By the end of May, COMAC had delivered 25 ARJ21-700 regional jets, according to state media reports. The country’s three biggest state-owned airlines last year announced deals to each purchase 35 ARJ21 jets.

The C919, China’s bid to break the Airbus and Boeing duopoly in the narrow-body passenger jet market, is still in flight-testing phase after years of delay. It is expected to receive Chinese airworthiness certification next year.

Cina. Il C919 effettua il secondo volo di test. 730 velivoli già prenotati.

Giuseppe Sandro Mela.

2017-10-08

Ne avevamo già dato ampio annuncio.

Cina. C919 ed An-225. Si sviluppa l’industria aeronautica cinese.

Primo volo per il C919, decolla la sfida cinese a Boeing e Airbus.

Adesso l’annuncio del secondo volo di test.

«China’s domestically developed C919 passenger jet completed its second test flight on Thursday»

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«The 166-minute flight time was more than double the maiden flight of 80 minutes, but 54 minutes shorter than plans detailed in an article published by state-backed news website ThePaper.cn earlier on Thursday»

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«Strongly backed by China’s government, COMAC has so far announced orders for 730 C919 planes from 27 customers, many of which are Chinese leasing companies»

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Lasciamo i dettagli tecnici a quanti ne siano interessati.

In questa sede interessa far notare soltanto una cifra:

«orders for 730 C919 planes»

Un portafoglio ordini di questo volume permette di coprire tutte le spese di investimento e produzione, nonché di mantenere una scorta liquida di non indifferente portata per finanziare nuovi progetti.

Gran brutta notizia per i costruttori mondiali di aeromobili.Prima non c’era ed adesso c’è.

«Prima conquisteremo il mondo, poi l’ex-occidente pagherà il welfare cinese.»

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→ Reuters. 2017-09-28. China’s COMAC says C919 jet completed second test flight

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s domestically developed C919 passenger jet completed its second test flight on Thursday, the jet’s maker said, but the duration and near five-month gap since its first flight have raised questions over whether its latest delivery target can be met.

The narrow-body C919, which will compete with Boeing Co’s (BA.N) 737 and the Airbus SE (AIR.PA) A320, is a symbol of China’s ambition to muscle into a global jet market estimated to be worth $2 trillion over the next 20 years.

However, the program has faced lengthy delays and missed its original target of delivery to customers by 2016 – a date reportedly pushed back to 2020. Sales to date have been restricted largely to its home market because it has yet to be certified by regulators in the United States and Europe.

Thursday’s flight was the second for the initial C919 test model, whose maiden flight was on May 5. The second of six planned test aircraft, which achieved power-on of its systems in July, has yet to fly.

Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC) [CMAFC.UL] said the plane reached an altitude of 10,000 feet during a flight that took off from Shanghai’s Pudong Airport at 07:22 a.m. (2322 GMT) and landed at 10:08 a.m.

“Various elements of the test flight, including with the raising/lowering of the landing gear, were all completed smoothly,” COMAC said in a statement.

The 166-minute flight time was more than double the maiden flight of 80 minutes, but 54 minutes shorter than plans detailed in an article published by state-backed news website ThePaper.cn earlier on Thursday. COMAC did not immediately reply to questions from Reuters on whether the flight was shorter than planned.

Bradley Perrett, a veteran China watcher and reporter at Aviation Week, said the five-month interval between the aircraft’s two flights was “extraordinary” and COMAC’s reported delivery target of 2020 appeared not to be firm.

“The conclusion must be that COMAC was not really ready for flight testing in May,” Perrett said in an article published on Wednesday. “A common view is that the C919 was put into the air so early for strictly political reasons, although there is no suggestion that doing so was unsafe.”

Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Industries Ltd’s (7011.T), Mitsubishi Regional Jet – Japan’s first passenger aircraft – took its second flight eight days after it first flew in 2015 while the gap between the first and second flight for the Airbus A350 was five days, Perrett said.

Strongly backed by China’s government, COMAC has so far announced orders for 730 C919 planes from 27 customers, many of which are Chinese leasing companies.

Though billed as homemade, the C919 relies on overseas technology from firms including General Electric Co (GE.N), France’s Safran SA (SAF.PA), Honeywell International Inc (HON.N) and United Technologies Corp (UTX.N).

COMAC also said its ARJ21 regional jet was in the air at the same time as the C919 on Thursday, marking the first time two types of domestically made passenger jets have taken to China’s skies simultaneously.