On Sept. 28, China Eastern and COMAC announced a new order of 100 COMAC C919. This order is yet the largest confirmed order of C919 from a single airline, and the 100 jets will be delivered to China Eastern from 2024 through 2031. The delivery schedule reported by the media is listed below: Year 2024 […]
On Sept. 28, China Eastern and COMAC announced a new order of 100 COMAC C919. This order is yet the largest confirmed order of C919 from a single airline, and the 100 jets will be delivered to China Eastern from 2024 through 2031. The delivery schedule reported by the media is listed below:
| Year | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
| Delivery | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 20 |
Other major airlines with COMAC C919 intentional orders, such as China Eastern’s fellow Chinese state-owned airlines Air China and China Southern, have not yet announced any new orders for C919. Experts estimate that, with this order, China Eastern has locked a quarter of the production capacity of C919 until 2031.
According to the delivery plan, COMAC is set to deliver all five initial orders of C919 placed in 2021 to China Eastern before the end of 2023. However, this task may be challenging considering the last quarter of the year has already begun and three more jets need to be delivered.
The COMAC C919 has already carried 50,000 passengers
COMAC C919 was certified in September 2022, and the first C919 was delivered to China Eastern in December 2022. After a five-month trial and test flights, it finally entered service on May 28, 2023. The second C919 was delivered to China Eastern later on July 16. Two C919s are currently scheduled to fly two pairs of flights between Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport and…
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