{"id":144037,"date":"2023-09-22T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=144037"},"modified":"2023-09-22T20:24:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:24:56","slug":"gallopair-places-order-for-china-made-c919-arj21-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2023\/09\/gallopair-places-order-for-china-made-c919-arj21-jets.html","title":{"rendered":"GallopAir places order for China-made C919, ARJ21 jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GallopAir<\/strong>, a new Brunei-based airline, plans to buy 30 aircraft from Chinese planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), which will include the first overseas purchases of the state-backed firm\u2019s narrow-body C919 jet.<\/p>\n<p>The letter of intent, worth a total of $2 billion, was signed at a regional trade event in China last week, the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes 15 orders of COMAC\u2019s ARJ21 aircraft &#8211; including its freighter and business jet variants &#8211; and 15 of the C919, which completed its maiden commercial flight in May. The C919 was developed by COMAC to rival Airbus SE\u2019s A320neo and Boeing Co\u2019s 737 MAX single-aisle jet families.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/en\/2023\/09\/boeing-forecasts-that-china-will-need-8560-new-commercial-airplanes-over-next-20-years.html\">Boeing forecasts that China will need 8,560 new commercial airplanes over next 20 years<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The deal was disclosed by China-based Shaanxi Tianju Investment Group, an investor in GallopAir, in a message posted on WeChat on Monday.GallopAir said the aircraft from COMAC will need to undergo due diligence and certification processes by Brunei\u2019s Department of Civil Aviation prior to delivery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/brunei-airlines\/bruneis-gallop-air-places-2-bln-order-for-china-made-c919-arj21-jets-idUSL1N3AY0OG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlight operations are forecasted to begin in the third quarter of 2024,\u201d GallopAir said.<\/p>\n<p>Once completed, the deal would make GallopAir the second international operator of Chinese-made aircraft after Indonesian low-cost carrier TransNusa, which operates a small fleet of the ARJ21 aircraft, a predecessor to the C919.<\/p>\n<p>Little is known about GallopAir, which is expected to be only the second Brunei-based airline operator after national carrier Royal Brunei Airlines. The company has said it intends to provide flight services in the Brunei Darussalam\u2013Indonesia\u2013Malaysia\u2013Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GallopAir, a new Brunei-based airline, plans to buy 30 aircraft from Chinese planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":103473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,230,465,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-144037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-airlines","8":"tag-aircraft","9":"tag-airline","10":"tag-asia-2","11":"tag-china-2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-768x384.jpg",768,384,true],"large":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false],"pk-small":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-80x80.jpg",80,80,true],"pk-thumbnail":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"csco-small":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-80x80.jpg",80,80,true],"csco-intermediate":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"csco-thumbnail":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-380x220.jpg",380,220,true],"csco-thumbnail-alternative":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"csco-thumbnail-uncropped":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-380x190.jpg",380,190,true],"csco-medium":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false],"csco-medium-alternative":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919-560x336.jpg",560,336,true],"csco-medium-uncropped":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false],"csco-large":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false],"csco-large-uncropped":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false],"csco-extra-large":["https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Comac-C919.jpg",800,400,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Redacci\u00f3n - Aviaci\u00f3n al D\u00eda","author_link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/author\/aad"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"GallopAir, a new Brunei-based airline, plans to buy 30 aircraft from Chinese planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China&hellip;","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144038,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144037\/revisions\/144038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}