How much does a C919 cost?

Each jet is listed for a price of 653 million yuan (S$134 million). That price would put the C919 in the same range as narrow-body competitors like the Airbus A320neo, with a list price of US$111 million (S$154 million), and the troubled Boeing 737 Max, which has a list price of US$117 million.

Will China build a C919?

Comac C919. China hopes to begin delivery of its first-ever home-built mainline airliner, the Comac C919, this year. The planemaker's jet does not stack up to Boeing and Airbus' competing narrowbodies, analysts say. The C919 falls short of the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus A320neo in terms of range, capacity, and technology.

When did Comac C919 come out?

The first C919 rolls off the assembly line in 2015. Two years later, in May 2017, the C919 took its maiden flight over Shanghai. Comac C919 test flight. While the company hoped the twin jet would enter the market before 2020, regulatory, technological, and supply issues turtled the process. Comac C919.

Is the C919 a bleak future?

In 2013, Chinese state-owned newspaper Global Times complained that an Aviation Week editorial about the bleak prospects for the aircraft "maliciously disparaged the future outlook for the C919". COMAC aims to take a fifth of the global narrowbody market and a third of the Chinese market by 2035.