Comac C919 Certified As Arrival of Revamped MC-21 Shifts To 2024

Comac C919 aircraft

The C919 is planned to enter commercial service with China Eastern Airlines following CAAC certification.

Credit: Xinhua
During the golden age of globalization and world trade in the early 2000s, there seemed to be a chance that the Airbus-Boeing aircraft duopoly might end in the foreseeable future. China had launched the Comac C919 narrowbody and Russia had started to develop the United Aircraft Corp. MC-21 in...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

Jens Flottau

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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