Domestic large aircraft C919 is expected to be delivered to the industry within the year: the price and service response capability is the two major advantages

On the morning of September 13, two C919 aircraft took off from Shanghai Pudong Airport to Beijing Capital Airport. This is another important signal after China Commercial Fly announced that C919 has completed all the test flights. It is reported that going to Beijing this time is preparing for evidence collection, but this has not been confirmed by the Chinese COMAC.

According to the official WeChat account of China Shangfei, the so -called "evidence collection" (referring to the "model qualification certificate") is a sign of a aircraft passing for a service, and it is also the most critical link to enter the market operation. At present, C919 has 815 orders from 28 customers, and it is expected to be delivered to China China China Eastern Airlines (SH600115 for 5.12 yuan, and the total market value of 96.637 billion yuan) will be delivered to the first C919 aircraft.

China China Eastern Airlines will introduce the first C919 within the year

C919, as a large jet civil aircraft with independent intellectual property rights in my country, has always attracted much attention. In 2009, COMAC officially released the first single -channel conventional layout of 150 -level large -scale passenger machine model "Comac919", referred to as "C919". In November 2015, the first machine of the C919 large passenger aircraft was officially installed off at the Pudong base. In May 2017, the first flight was successful.

Since 2019, six C919 has conducted flight tests in Shanghai, Yan Liang, Dongying, Nanchang and other places, and a series of ground tests and flight tests have been conducted. Finally, in July 2022, China Commercial Fly announced that 6 trial aircraft of C919 large passenger planes had successfully completed all the test flights and began to charge for "evidence collection".

Picture source: China Commercial Flying Official Website

What is "evidence collection"? The official WeChat account of China Commercial Fei once explained to "Air Vilk Evidence": "Any commercial aircraft wants to enter the market to operate, and complete the model qualified approval and obtain a model certificate is the most critical and difficult link."

Specifically, the aircraft obtaining a model qualification certificate means that the safety level of the aircraft reaches the probability of destroying the person destroyed per million flight hours per million flight hours, which also means Enter the market for sale after obtaining a stand -alone flight certificate.

According to the official website of China Commercial Fei, the current C919 aircraft has a total of 28 customers with 815 orders. Among them, China Eastern Airlines is the world's first startup user in C919. In March 2021, China China Eastern Airlines and COMAC officially signed the first batch of five C919 purchase contracts, which will become the world's first airline to operate C919 large passenger aircraft. China China China Eastern Airlines semi -annual report shows that the first C919 will be introduced in the second half of this year, and 4 will be introduced in 2023.

Picture source: China Commercial Flying Official Website

According to the preliminary arrangements of China China Eastern Airlines, after the introduction of the five C919 aircraft, it will be based on Shanghai to encrypted Shanghai to Beijing from Daxing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Xiamen, Wuhan, Qingdao and other routes to improve China China Eastern Airlines Power rate.

The competitive advantage is the price and service response ability

At the same time, the news of the aforementioned C919 also caused "waves" in the secondary market. Wind data shows that on September 13, the concept sector of the large aircraft rose, and many companies rose.

At present, the development of domestic passenger aircraft is supported by policy. In January 2022, the State Council released the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan "stated that my country will focus on promoting the development of C919 large passenger aircraft demonstration operations and the series of ARJ21 line passenger aircraft.

In May 2022, China China China Eastern Airlines continued to increase C919 models and announced that it was planned to raise 15 billion yuan, of which 10.5 billion yuan would be used to introduce 38 aircraft, including 4 C919 aircraft and 24 ARJ21-700 aircraft. ~ Delivery in 2024.

Among them, the unit price of C919's directory is $ 99 million. It is worth mentioning that the benchmark models of the C919 are Boeing's B737 series and Airbus's A320 series. China China China China China Eastern Airlines ’s non-public offering A-share stock plan showed that at that time, the directory price of the introduction of the A320-251N model was $ 111 million, which was slightly lower in the C919 price.

In addition, Huaxia Airlines (SZ002928, a stock price of 11.10 yuan, a total market value of 11.251 billion yuan) was announced in November 2020 that it will purchase and receive a total of 100 ARJ21 series and C919 series aircraft from China COMAC. Finish. 50 of them are identified as the ARJ21 series, and the other 50 can be all or part of the C919 series.

At present, the two major aircraft manufacturers of Boeing and Airbus occupy most of the share in the Chinese mainland passenger aircraft market. What are the competitiveness of the C919?

In this regard, on September 13, the civil aviation expert Lin Zhijie said in an interview with the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that the advantages of the C919 were at least in terms of price and service response capabilities. On the one hand, C919 does not need to pay import tariffs and has the advantages of domestic assembly costs; on the other hand, C919 is mainly based on domestic service capabilities, and is closer to the market and customers.

At the same time, Lin Zhijie also pointed out that according to past experience, the new model will inevitably face some problems in the early stage of delivery operation."The reliability and economy of the model still requires market inspection, but I believe that C919 will gradually improve the ability to improve in production and operation." Talking about the development challenges facing the C919 aircraft, Li Hanming, a civil aviation expert, also told thatReporter: "The main reason is that the carrier needs to be familiar with this aircraft to find the lowest cost of its cost. We expect that within the initial two years, the C919 is in the running -in stage."

Daily Economic News

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