The two domestically produced large aircraft C919 received by China Eastern Airlines started dual-plane commercial operation for the first time on August 4, flying the Shanghai Hongqiao-Chengdu Tianfu route, the "Shanghai-Chengdu Express" round-trip flight. He Dongfeng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd., revealed at the 2023 Pujiang Innovation Forum plenary session that The current number of C919 orders has reached 1,061, and 2 have been delivered. The C929 plans to provide 250 to 350 seats, with a range of 12,000 kilometers, and is in the preliminary design stage.
He Dongfeng said that currently, a large aircraft has millions of parts, 100,000 aircraft take off and land every day, and 4 billion passengers are transported every year. Since its establishment in 2008, COMAC has formed a product line mainly composed of ARJ21, C919 and C929.
According to previous reports, the second domestic large aircraft C919 (aircraft number B919C) received by China Eastern Airlines has been officially put into service on the "Shanghai Hongqiao-Chengdu Tianfu" air express, with flight number MU9197/MU9198.
It is reported that on December 9 last year, COMAC delivered the world’s first C919 large passenger aircraft to China Eastern Airlines. After verification flight, it officially started commercial passenger transport on May 28 this year.
Since its first flight, the first C919 has been flying for many months, and passengers who have flown on it have spoken highly of it.
“Compared with Boeing and Airbus aircraft of the same level, the most obvious thing about the C919 ride experience is that it is less noisy”, “The cabin is very spacious , when there is a dining car in the middle corridor, a person can pass sideways" "The rainbow lights on the top of the cabin are very shocking"