China Eastern Airlines has completed the engine replacement on the world’s first delivered COMAC C919 aircraft, registered as ...

But it wasn’t just any narrowbody – it was the flag carrier’s first, and so far the only, C919 jetliner. The C919 is China’s first homegrown mainline passenger plane, manufactured by the ...

A C919 passenger aircraft operated by China Southern Airlines took off from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, marking the Guangzhou-based airline's maiden C919 commercial flight. This was ...

A C919 “smoothly landed” at Lhasa Gonggar Airport in far western China after travelling for about two hours from Chengdu in the southwestern Sichuan province, according to the official Xinhua ...

Now, with its home-grown C919 being used commercially by three domestic airlines and hopes that it will be used overseas, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) will need to take a ...

A C919 aircraft arrives at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on July 29, 2024. [YIN LIQIN/CHINA NEWS SERVICE] China's first domestically developed single-aisle passenger jet C919 has entered ...

The C919, launched 14 years ago and designed to ... having been grounded since March 2019 after two fatal crashes. However, three months ago major Chinese airlines placed an order for nearly ...

The C919 visits Hong Kong on a demonstration tour in December 2023. Credit: Sipa US/Alamy Stock Photo Comac has signed agreements with the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) and MRO provider HAECO ...

When China set off on its long-haul endeavour to build and fly a modern commercial airliner, it aimed high. Now, it will need to take a detour to learn from another foreign manufacturer to achieve ...

He said: “The C919 is effectively an A320neo ... raising safety questions five years after the second of two fatal crashes ...

But it wasn’t just any narrowbody – it was the flag carrier’s first, and so far the only, C919 jetliner. The C919 is China’s first homegrown mainline passenger plane, manufactured by the ...