{"id":37359,"date":"2023-01-30T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=37359"},"modified":"2023-01-30T21:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:42:01","slug":"chinas-first-homemade-large-passenger-jet-the-c919-being-pulled-out-of-a-hangar-during-an-offline-ceremony-at-the-final-assembly-plant-of-comac-in-pudong-shanghai-china-on-november-2-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=37359","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s first homemade large passenger jet, the C919, being pulled out of a hangar during an offline ceremony at the final assembly plant of COMAC in Pudong, Shanghai, China, on November 2, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has reached a major milestone in its quest to disrupt the Boeing-Airbus duopoly over commercial aircraft manufacturing. In December 2022, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) delivered its first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/comac-c919-chinese-commercial-jet-built-rival-boeing-and-airbus-2022-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">C919<\/a>&nbsp;aircraft, a narrow-body jet seeking to compete with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.com\/commercial\/737max\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boeing 737 MAX<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airbus.com\/en\/products-services\/commercial-aircraft\/passenger-aircraft\/a320-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Airbus A320neo<\/a>&nbsp;families. COMAC\u2019s nascence (it was founded in 2008), among other issues, has observers doubting whether the C919 can shake up the civil aviation industry. Despite these concerns, it appears that COMAC is in prime position to leverage its home-field advantage to spur adoption of its new aircraft.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, COMAC, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/blogs\/trustee-china-hand\/chinas-comac-aerospace-minor-leaguer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">state-owned enterprise<\/a>, will compete for sales in the Chinese market and airspace, both of which are regulated by its government owners, who also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/china-big-three-airlines-origin-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">own<\/a>&nbsp;the three largest Chinese airlines. The Chinese government routinely subsidizes COMAC, with some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itif.org\/publications\/2021\/02\/08\/fact-week-china-has-provided-its-state-owned-national-champion-commercial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;indicating that COMAC has already received up to $72 billion in development subsidies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has reached a major milestone in its quest to disrupt the Boeing-Airbus duopoly over commercial aircraft manufacturing. In December 2022, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) delivered its first&nbsp;C919&nbsp;aircraft, a narrow-body jet seeking to compete with the&nbsp;Boeing 737 MAX&nbsp;and&nbsp;Airbus A320neo&nbsp;families. COMAC\u2019s nascence (it was founded in 2008), among other issues, has observers doubting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37361,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37359\/revisions\/37361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}