China’s Comac opens Singapore office, eyes entry into global passenger jet market
A Comac C919 flies past during an aerial flying display ahead of the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore February 18, 2024. — Reuters pic
Tuesday, 29 Oct 2024 3:24 PM MYT
SEOUL, Oct 29 — Chinese planemaker Comac has opened an office in Singapore, China’s embassy in the South-east Asian city state said, as the state-owned company tries to break into a global passenger jet market dominated by Western manufacturers.
The new Asia-Pacific office was a key symbolic step for the passenger jet maker in taking its aircraft overseas, China’s ambassador to Singapore, Cao Zhongming, said at the inauguration.
“It’s hoped that Comac will make steady progress on the road of internationalisation,” he added, the embassy said in yesterday’s brief posting on social media site Weixin.
This year Comac has stepped up plans for production and sales of its C919 narrow-body passenger plane, which is in a category similar to Boeing’s 737 MAX and the A320neo planes of Airbus, although only flown within China.
Comac has been marketing its planes outside China. But industry sources say it is a long way from making inroads internationally, especially without benchmark certifications from the European Union, which it is pursuing for the C919, or the United States. — Reuters
I have no problem with CN or RU similar plane...ASEAN should think about a similar Airbus/ESA jv model for aerospace tech...of course, there will always be naysayer but it is path to overcome into a path of cooperation and collaboration for common good despite the challenges.
ReplyDeleteC919 has a lower purchase price than .
ReplyDeleteA320 or 737, but significantly worse fuel efficiency per passenger km.
Given fuel is one of the largest or The Largest airline operating cost for any airline, that will be a problem for any airline , unless it has no choice but to accept direction from China government or some other government for geopolitical relationship objectives.
The much publicised purchase by one or two Western aviation leasing companies were actually aimed at the China Market.
Only 1 non-China airline has purchased C919 so far, a Brunei startup airlines.
Maybe Malaysia will buy soon, given how totally influenced the Malaysian Governmen is by China.
C919 has significantly worse fuel efficiency per passenger km than A320 or 737?
ReplyDeleteWhich model of the jet engine r u referring to?
All A320, 737Max & C919 use CFM International LEAP turbofan engines with model 1A, 1B & 1C respectively.
Compared to the similarly sized LEAP-1A, the -1C is heavier and produces less thrust. For the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, the LEAP engines consume approximately 0.55 lb (0.25 kg) of fuel per generated lbf of thrust an hour. 1A has a max thrust of 35,000 lbf while 1C has a max thrust of 30,000 lbf. Thus for a mid range commercial flight 1C is indeed less fuel efficient due to longer flight time caused by the lower jet thrust.
However, C919 has since upgraded to use the CJ1000 high-bypass turbofan jet engine
produced by Shanghai-based Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC). This engine has an average 25,000 lbf max thrust with Specific fuel consumption: ~0.52 lb/lbf/h. Making this engine showing an improved fuel efficiency comparable with the top models of those oversea turbo jet engine.