China Eastern Airlines, the initial customer for the country's homegrown narrow-body jet C919, will launch the plane's first commercial flight on Sunday, the carrier's app showed on Friday.
The airline and manufacturer have given its first commercial flight little publicity. But speculation that the flight would happen on Sunday arose on Chinese social media after Shanghai Stamp Collecting Corporation released a photo of a commemorative stamp for the C919 flight that bore a May 28 date.
China Eastern has not said who will fly on the flight and did not respond to Reuters requests for comment on Friday. Online users said the airline opened an appointment channel earlier this year on its app for the public to book tickets. China Eastern signed a contract for five C919s in March 2021 in the first commercial deal for the plane. The Shanghai-headquartered carrier received its first C919, numbered B-919A, in December and began 100 hours of empty aircraft verification test flights.
China's Xinhua state news agency had said last year that the C919 would make its first commercial flight in the spring.Although the C919 is assembled in China, it relies heavily on Western components, including engines and avionics, from companies including GE
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