Wu Guang Hui (chin. 吴光辉) predicts that China will request 9,000 fresh aircraft over the next 20 years to meet the expected immense request in the civilian aviation market. Wu Gang Hui is the chief designer of the first Chinese narrow-hull passenger aircraft C919 produced by China Commercial Aircraft Corp., Ltd. (COMAC, chin. 中国商用飞机股份有限公司有限公司).
According to data published by the Chinese civilian Aviation Administration (CAAC, chin. 中国民用航空局), at the end of 2023 China operated 4270 aircraft, including 4013 passenger aircraft and 257 cargo aircraft. Wu Guang Hui claims that 1 of the crucial improvement impulses for Chinese airlines was the initiative “One Trail, 1 Road” (chin. 一带一路). Since the launch of this initiative in 2013, the number of flights from China to partner countries has increased from 439 to... 19.397, with regular 7.616 flights per week. China has signed air transport agreements with 132 countries, with 78 regular connections.
The forecasts of the main aircraft designer C919 coincide with the forecasts of the American aircraft maker Boeing Co., published in the study "2024 Commercial marketplace Outlook". According to the authors of the report, China will request 8830 fresh aircraft over the next 20 years. Darren Hulst, Vice president of Boeing Marketing, believes that the Chinese passenger and cargo aviation marketplace will proceed to develop, driven by economical growth, as well as the activities of local airlines building home and global connections. These factors will strengthen request as well as the request to make modern, fuel-efficient fleets.
The marketplace conditions clearly gotta influence the successive increase in the production and supply of Chinese C919 aircraft, the construction-rival for Boeing 737 and Airbus SE 320. The first copies of C919 are already utilized by
- Air China (chin. 中国国际航空公司),
- China confederate Airlines (chin. 中国南方航空公司) and
- China east Airlines (chin. 中国东方航空公司),
and each of these lines has ordered 200-300 machines produced by COMAC so far. This year, the Chinese maker intends to supply 15 more C919 aircraft to customers.
COMAC continues to work on a wide-hull passenger aircraft C929, which had previously been conducted jointly with the Russian company United Aircraft Corp.
Based on:
- companies.caixin.com;
- xueqiu.com;
- Boeing.com;
Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China
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Editorial: Leszek B.
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