COMAC C919

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Reuters claims the first commercial of C919 would be on Sunday.
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yep, confirmed here MU9191 and MU9192
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Makes a lot of sense to fly SHA to PEK. Big stations. Plenty of media coverage for MU. Can easily fix issues if aircraft has any problems. About 5 block hours, which is quite normal for a new aircraft type going into service. Longer term, they need to raise that to about 10 per day.

IIRC, when ARJ-21 entered service, it was only doing 1 to 2 hours a day. As you can see, C919 is already aiming at much higher target
 

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first C919 will be flying SHA-CTU route from now on. To start off, they are doing 1 R/T a day. Eventually, I would imagine it can do 2 R/Ts a day to get to about 10 hours of block times, which is normal for such a narrowbody aircraft
 
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