China wants more overseas buyers for C919. Can Southeast Asia help it soar?

For China, its skies are no longer large ample to accommodate the ambitions for its home-grown passenger jets.

It wants Chinese language jets to unfold their wings and poke extra, but for now, its want stays aspirational at most keen, no topic having made a shrimp step forward in the Southeast Asian space that is considered to present broad most likely.

The Commercial Plane Company of China (Comac) has been flooded with home orders for its home-grown narrowbody C919, and whereas these get hang of make clear its production skill, the deliver-owned manufacturer is already plotting a route for the jet’s international expansion to nibble on the duopoly held by Airbus and Boeing.

The harsh actuality is that an absence of an extraordinarily powerful certification from aviation regulators in Europe or the US, as neatly as usual geopolitical complications, might presumably threaten to ground Comac’s excessive hopes for the C919, which is considered as a doable challenger to the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 households of airplane.

However it absolutely is Southeast Asia that provides hope, with Jakarta-based fully mostly airline TransNusa already firmly on the radar, whereas Brunei and the Heart East are additionally being explored.