China has a Crossover Gap: The A220 and E2 Are Both Locked Out — But One Has a Key The A220 recently passed 1,000 orders. The E195-E2 has passed 500. Both aircraft are thriving in the global market. Neither has…
The new US administration has publicly stated it plans a 10% across-the-board tariff on Chinese imports. China responded by noting nobody wins a trade war. No matter how this happens, there will be a mess to work through. A COMAC…
Nine months after the E190-E2, the Embraer E195-E2 has now also received the type certificate from the Chinese regulatory agency CAAC. The airframer says it is confident that it will be able to conclude sales for the E2-series, on which it…
Boeing’s President and CEO David Calhoun is positive about the position of the MAX in China, now that the Chinese regulatory agency CAAC is no longer objecting to Boeing the deliver new airplanes to Chinese customers. During today’s Q1 earnings…
COMAC has received the airworthiness approval for the freighter version of the ARJ21-700. During a ceremony in Shanghai on January 6, the documents were formally handed over by the CAAC. COMAC gets approval for ARJ21 Freighter conversion. The Chinese airframer…
COMAC delivered the first ARJ21 regional jet to a non-Chinese customer on December 18. Indonesia’s Transnusa Airlines received the first of what should be thirty ARJ21-700s on order, which marks the first time that an airline outside China will operate a…