Chinese planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC, 中國商用飛機) yesterday said it had secured 330 orders for its homegrown C919 narrow-body and ARJ21 regional jets, and raised its 20-year aircraft demand forecast at the country’s biggest air show.
China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co (國銀金融租賃), ICBC Financial Leasing Co (工銀租賃), CMB Financial Leasing Co (招銀金融租賃), Bank of Communications Financial Leasing Co (交銀金融租賃), CCB Financial Leasing Corp (建信金融租賃), SPDB Financial Leasing Co (浦銀金融租賃) and Jiangsu Financial Leasing Co (江蘇金融租賃) on Tuesday signed orders for a combined 300 C919s and 30 ARJ21s at Airshow China in Zhuhai, COMAC said in a statement.
As with previous announcements, it was not immediately clear how many were firm orders or expressions of interest, and no delivery dates were provided.
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Before the latest deals, there had been 815 orders for the C919 from 28 customers, COMAC said on its Web site.
China Eastern Airlines Corp (中國東方航空) is the only customer that has announced a firm delivery schedule. It expects to receive its first plane next month and another four next year.
The C919 is China’s rival to the popular Airbus SE A320neo and Boeing Co 737 MAX narrow-body jet families, as China looks to become more self-sufficient.
COMAC on Tuesday said that China would need 9,284 new aircraft over the next 20 years to meet market demand, 200 more than in its forecast last year.
The Chinese planemaker’s forecast is higher than Boeing’s, which last month predicted that China would require 8,485 new planes in the next 20 years.
The US manufacturer forecast China would need 6,370 single-aisle airplanes to support its growing network of international and domestic routes, while COMAC said that 6,896 such planes would be needed.
Boeing has been shut out of orders in the world’s biggest market for new aircraft since 2017 amid US-China trade tensions, although Chinese airlines this year agreed to buy more than 300 Airbus narrow-body planes.
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