It looks more like "dragging feet", "I will do it when I have time, (I will never have time)". It is EASA renagating from commitment with CAAC by pretending to be respsonsible. What if EASA now ask CAAC to certify a new Airbus which EASA has already certified and China replis "we will take whatever time to ensure its safty." Do you still honestly think this is entirely reasonable?
FAA cheated by letting Boeing doing certification job. CAAC did not let COMAC to do certification job. Using FAA's fault to excuse EASA is like arresting everybody on the street because there is a criminal in the prison.
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COLOGNE, March 14 (Reuters) - Europe's air safety regulator will take whatever time is needed to approve China's C919 passenger jet, its top official told Reuters, dampening Beijing's hopes of quickly breaking into a market marked by jet shortages and a Boeing safety crisis.
Whatever time, that includes infinite.
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Luc Tytgat, acting executive director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), said COMAC had initially asked for European approval in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic stopped work. It re-launched the bid in November, requesting that the work be completed by 2026.
EASA was asked in 2019, more than 4 years have passed, that is clearly NOT want to do their part of agreement than being prefessional cautious. China's request has given EU 4 years that is almost the same amount of time that EU would need to certify Airbus.
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"Honestly I don't know if we will be able to do it yet: the plane is too new to us to know how easy or difficult it will be," he said in an interview at EASA's Cologne headquarters.
"Since 2019, things continued to be done in China so we now have to be briefed on the changes," he added.
The plane is NOT new to EASA, they had the same amount of time as CAAC to review whatever COMAC has been submitting to them. You have 4 years constant communication of any changes, and you have never bothered to read?
If it takes FAA 5 to 9 years to certify a Boeing, will it take another 5 to 9 years for EASA to certify the same plane? Certainly not. EASA's move is the very same of "EV dumping investigation" or "Eavesdropping Crane". Nothing professional but pure "none tariff blockade".
What EU is doing is to protect and increase Airbus's market share by taking advantage of Boeing's setback. It does not want COMAC to share the pie. EU's block is not only stopping EU operators to buy C919 but also prohibit operator outside of EU to fly C919 into EU forcing them to buy Airbus. There is absolutely no professionalism here.