2021-03-01 10:36:03 GMT2021-03-01 18:36:03(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SHANGHAI, March 1 (Xinhua) China Eastern Airlines and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) signed a purchase contract for five planes on Monday, marking the official entry into market operation for China s indigenously-developed C919 large passenger aircraft.
The new planes will be used on routes from Shanghai to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu, according to the airline company.
China Eastern Airlines has been participating deeply in the development of the C919 since a very early stage. In 2016, China Eastern Airlines signed a cooperation framework agreement with COMAC, becoming the world s first user of the C919.
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China Eastern Airlines and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China signed a contract to buy the C919 large passenger plane in Shanghai today, finalizing the world's first official purchase contract for the domestically produced aircraft.
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by Charles Mudede • Feb 26, 2021 at 4:28 pm
Window view of a Boeing 777 engine. Yes. That engine. Fabian Gysel/gettyimages.com
The headline for this post is not a joke. It s something that Boeing and civic leaders should consider, because the evidence shows us that the plane manufacturer is leaving our region and that it may be irrelevant by 2025 anyway.
The news today (another Boeing plane, this time operated Russia s Rossiya Airlines, had engine problems) is not actually that bad. The same is true for the incident that happened over Denver this weekend. As terrifying as that fiery engine looked, the situation was not at all dangerous for those in the air (the same, of course, cannot be said for those on the ground). The same is true for the incident in the Netherlands (falling bits of plane, the emergency landing, and so on), which happened on the same day as the one in Denver. These incidents can all be reduced to a public relations