International approval for the C919 – China’s prized home-grown passenger jet – appears to be moving closer to reality, as a delegation of aviation officials and technicians from Europe are set to touch down in early July to conduct field checks and begin the certification process in earnest.
Officials from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will take part in flight simulations for the aircraft, confer with its design team and meet with their counterparts in the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), according to sources familiar with the matter.
Boeing doesn’t care if they get bumped down to third place in commercial aviation. Their path forward is clear: leach off DoD, like Lockheed does. DoD tolerates late delivery, cost overruns, substandard performance, and general sloth. Things that commercial airlines don’t tolerate.
Steve
Speaking of passenger jet making corporations I had a get together yesterday with an Israeli pilot who graduated from jet fighters into passenger planes, and is currently flying international between Europe and North America.
After commiserating about Hamas etc, I asked him about Boeing. He said that the better pilots he knows seem to be migrating away from Airlines that use Boeing to those using Airbus or Embraer. I asked about China and he said his colleagues seem open to the idea but not yet convinced.
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Boeing’s commercial market share has fallen from around 90%, to 40% today, so a pilot migrating to Airbus makes sense, as that is, increasingly, what is being flown.
Steve
Steve
My point was not that pilots are migrating from Boeing to Airbus, but that experiencd (better) pilots with the juice to make the choise are migrating from companies owning Boeing planes to those that do not have one single damn cursed Boeing plane in their fleet!
Bad news for airlines teamed with Boeing.
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How would we customers make the same choice?
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