It has been 7 years since the first flight of China's domestic C919 aircraft prototype, the C919 aircraft was completed on May 5, 2017, and it has been almost a year since the first aircraft completed commercial operation. In 2022, many countries in Southeast Asia have carried out tour flight demonstrations, which indicate that the C919 aircraft intends to enter the international market, and at the same time as the C919 aircraft shows its strength, the C919 aircraft has gone to Hong Kong for flight demonstrations some time ago. According to a recent news reported by Hong Kong media, the C919 aircraft will soon go to Hong Kong again, but this time the C919 aircraft will not perform a flight show, but a commercial passenger flight. Hong Kong media pointed out that the C919 aircraft will carry out charter flights from Shanghai to Hong Kong this time, although such charter flights are not sold to the public like civil aircraft on weekdays, but the charter flights also indicate that C919 began to carry out more route tests.
With the completion of the delivery of the first batch of C919 aircraft to China Eastern Airlines, more and more C919 aircraft are being operated on routes. In the past, the C919 aircraft has appeared in Chengdu, Beijing, Xi'an and other cities, and now the C919 aircraft will go to Hong Kong, and clearly carry out the route operation, the war research believes that this is also another breakthrough of the C919 aircraft.
If the C919 aircraft wants to get more overseas orders, in addition to seeking support from Southeast Asian countries, more trips to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and some flights to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan can also demonstrate the performance of the C919 aircraft. Previously, it was rumored that Hong Kong Airlines is likely to become another user of the C919 aircraft, and a large number of Hong Kong Airlines flights are to overseas countries, which also means that the C919 aircraft will have more opportunities to go abroad in the future. The focus of media attention is not limited to the C919, according to an article recently published on its website by Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, the South China Morning Post pointed out that China will come up with a new aircraft called C939 in the coming period.
(Screenshot of the South China Morning Post report)
Most of the next domestic models mentioned by the media in the past period are C929 aircraft, and this is also a new aircraft that has been set up as a joint development between China and Russia. The C929 aircraft is the European Airbus A320 and Boeing's 787 aircraft, but now the Hong Kong media suddenly pointed out that China will come up with an aircraft called C939 in the future, and pointed out that the C939 aircraft has begun to develop, so what will the positioning of the C939 aircraft be? The war research institute believes that it is not very likely that China will come up with a four-engine aircraft, and it is possible that the C939 aircraft is a large passenger aircraft that is benchmarked against the Boeing 777.
The birth of the C919 aircraft has actually begun to impact the market of mainline civil aircraft in Europe and the United States. First of all, European and American countries want to continue to sell a large number of trunk civil opportunities in China, and if China can really come up with C929 aircraft and C939 aircraft reported by Hong Kong media in the future, then in the large wide-body passenger aircraft market, European and American countries will also feel a headache. Although the Chinese-made C919 aircraft has not yet obtained airworthiness certificates from the United States and Europe, this does not mean that Chinese-made domestic civil aircraft cannot be operated in overseas countries, and even China can seek some countries that ignore the United States airworthiness certificates at this stage. Text/Iris