The home-grown C919, built by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) to compete with Boeing’s 737 and Airbus’ A320 family of planes, was certified in September by the Civil Aviation Administration Of China (CAAC) after more than 14 years of development.
The passenger jet was delivered to China Eastern Airlines in December, when the Chinese carrier began conducting a total of 100 hours of test flights. Commercial flights were expected to begin in the first half of 2023, according to Chinese state media.
China has lofty ambitions in the commercial aviation market, and the central government has laid out plans for the C919 to gain 10 per cent of the domestic market share by 2025.
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