{"id":139862,"date":"2023-05-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=139862"},"modified":"2023-05-26T21:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:52:52","slug":"china-eastern-set-to-operate-c919s-first-commercial-flight-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2023\/05\/china-eastern-set-to-operate-c919s-first-commercial-flight-on-sunday.html","title":{"rendered":"China Eastern set to operate C919’s first commercial flight on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China Eastern Airlines<\/strong>, the initial customer for the country\u2019s homegrown narrow-body jet C919, will launch the plane\u2019s first commercial flight on Sunday, the carrier\u2019s app showed on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The C919 flight will take off as flight number MU9191 at 10:45 a.m. Beijing time from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport and arrive in Beijing Capital Airport at 1:10 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will fly a second time on Sunday afternoon back from Beijing to Shanghai, the app also showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The commercial operation of the C919 marks a milestone in the country\u2019s hopes that the plane will break the longtime Airbus-Boeing duopoly in the world\u2019s airline manufacturing industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The airline and manufacturer have given its first commercial flight little publicity. But speculation that the flight would happen on Sunday arose on Chinese social media after Shanghai Stamp Collecting Corporation released a photo of a commemorative stamp for the C919 flight that bore a May 28 date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China Eastern signed a contract for five C919s in March 2021 in the first commercial deal for the plane. The Shanghai-headquartered carrier received its first C919, numbered B-919A, in December and began 100 hours of empty aircraft verification test flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 164-seat aircraft comes with a two-class cabin layout, consisting of business and economy seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the C919 is assembled in China, it relies heavily on Western components, including engines and avionics, from companies including GE, Safran and Honeywell International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Sophie Yu ans Brenda Goh \u2013 Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: N509FZ\/Wikimedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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