Europe is backtracking again.
Reuters reported that the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has informed COMAC that it will not be able to issue an EASA airworthiness certificate for the C-919 within the originally planned timeframe of 2025, and the expected issuance of the airworthiness certificate will be delayed by 3 to 6 years.
Europe is quite cunning. Seeing that you are not using Boeing aircraft, Airbus' A320neo naturally has less competition. Let its A320neo dominate the global narrow-body aircraft market alone. Without Boeing as a competitor, why should I give way and issue an airworthiness certificate?!
Of course, we must increase the production of our C-919. The C-929 should also be put into production as soon as possible. Then, the matter of aircraft in the Chinese market will have nothing to do with those two companies.
We still have countermeasures. For example, if you don't issue me an airworthiness certificate, I can also cancel the airworthiness certificate of aircraft produced in Europe. Aircraft assembled in China by Airbus will not be canceled. In the future, when traveling between China and Europe, we can transfer flights in Central Asia or the Middle East. We'll see who is afraid of whom. We cannot let them get away with getting benefits while complaining.
Their timing is also very clever. Three years, just at the point when Trump's term ends, there might be a chance for Boeing aircraft to return to the Chinese market (Boeing aircraft may no longer have a market in China). Six years, the C-919 aircraft will already be supplied in large quantities to the global market, and the C-929 aircraft will also be in mass production. This is exactly the time when Chinese aircraft surpass them, and they will have no choice but to submit...
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