The Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines, one of the three major State-owned Chinese airlines, will become the first to take delivery of the homemade single-aisle passenger jet C919, domestic plane-maker Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) revealed last Tuesday.
我国飞机制造商中国商飞公司上周二透露,三大国有航空公司之一、总部位于上海的东方航空公司将成为国产单通道客机C919的首个交付用户。
If everything goes right, the first test flight of the 168-seat C919 is expected to be conducted by the end of the year, and conservatively speaking, it could be in early 2017, COMAC said.
商飞公司称,如果一切顺利,168座的C919客机将在今年年底进行首次试飞,保守一点的话也会在明年年初完成首次试飞。
Within one year of the test flight, COMAC and China Eastern will start discussions on the purchase of five C919 aircraft.
在C919客机试飞后的1年内,中国商飞公司和东方航空将开始进行5架客机的交易谈判。
So far, COMAC has received over 570 orders of C919 from 23 customers.
目前,商飞公司已收到来自23家客户、逾570架C919的订单。
Besides China Eastern, the planemaker also won commitments from a slew of leasing companies, including 36 from Citic Financial Leasing and 20 from SPDB Financial Leasing.
除了东方航空公司之外,该飞机制造商也获得了一系列的租赁公司的承诺,其中包括与中信金融租赁有限公司签署36架飞机的协议、与浦发银行金融租赁签署20架飞机的协议。
Apart from the C919, COMAC is also pushing sales of its Advanced Regional Jet ARJ21.
除了C919客机,中国商飞公司也在推动ARJ21新支线飞机的销售。
Longhao Air signed a commitment to purchase an unspecified number of the smaller 90-seat jets, COMAC said in one statement.
中国商飞公司在一份声明中表示,龙浩航空集团签署了一项购买数目不详、有90个座位的小型飞机的协议。