Glad to see Comac planes being used at production scale. Hopefully they are safe and push Boeing to do better, but based on recent US actions I bet they will ban Comac to prevent competition.
Boeing has generally been one of the lynchpins of China-US trade relationship, and with both the current geopolitical climate and the ongoing quality issues of Boeing aircrafts, of course the Chinese airlines would want to hedge their bets and take a risk on domestically produced jets, even if it is new and relatively unproven at this point. It doesn’t mean that they will stop buying from Airbus or Boeing completely, though.
The C919 uses many American/European produced components/subsystem, most notably the CFM LEAP engines, which is also used by both Airbus and Boeing.
Locally produced, artisanal airplanes.
That which made China will also be its downfall. They can’t manufacture and sell cheap junk for decades, then turn around and expect people to trust their lives in their planes.
Boeing isn’t better, by any means. Nationalize them and imprison the CEOs
Were you hibernating in the last 25 years?
Does working 14 hour days count as hibernation?
Insightful meaningful addendum, good thing you’re here to say it
Seems you are greatly bothered, seeing as you make not one but two answers of significantly less relevancy to that single post. Anyway, condolences for living in a wilderness and using 30 year old computer since this is the only way you could maybe don’t notice that the “everything made in China is poor quality” is an very old meme.
Not everything is a meme
100 planes isn’t a whole lot for the Chinese domestic market. And they won’t mind that the planes are made in China at all.
imprison the CEOs
a broken clock is right once a day
