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COMAC — China’s state-owned planemaker — set out to make a splash with the C919: a domestic competitor to Boeing’s 737 MAX and Airbus’s A320neo families. Earlier this year the company publicly aimed to ramp up production dramatically (targets changed from 30 to 75 for 2025), but filings from the three Chinese carriers that fly the model show reality is running a little behind the PR brochure. As of September, only five of the roughly 32 C919s those carriers expected this year have actually been handed over.Yes, that’s the kind of math that makes spreadsheet cells weep. The state-owned manufacturer is reported to have cut its own p...
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