ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) – COMAC mentioned on Tuesday that Air China (OTC:) could be the launch buyer for the Chinese language planemaker’s C929 widebody plane below growth that’s designed to compete with twin-aisle fashions from Airbus and Boeing (NYSE:) .
COMAC’s deputy director of promoting, Liu Yan, made the announcement at China’s greatest air present in Zhuhai.
He didn’t disclose the variety of plane Air China would buy or deliberate supply dates.
COMAC has mentioned the C929 may have 280 to 400 seats and a spread of 12,000 km (7,500 miles), which is in the identical class as Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.
The C929 was renamed in 2023 from the CR929 after Russia left a China-Russia three way partnership growing the plane.
A report in April from the C929’s fuselage producer mentioned it aimed to ship the primary fuselage part by September 2027.
COMAC deputy basic supervisor Tong Yu in Might advised a gaggle of Hong Kong reporters in Shanghai {that a} C929 prototype shall be seen within the close to future and estimated the jet may “quickly” take a check flight, in keeping with Hong Kong newspaper Tai Kong Pao.
