{"id":908,"date":"2013-08-05T21:14:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T01:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2013-08-24T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T17:25:41","slug":"comac-delays-c919-program-first-flight-to-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/05\/comac-delays-c919-program-first-flight-to-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Comac delays C919 program first flight to 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/C919.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-909\" alt=\"C919\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/C919-300x103.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/C919-300x103.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/C919-1024x354.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/C919.jpeg 1826w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was reported on August 5, 2013 that Comac will be delaying the flight flight of the C919 aircraft from 2014 to some point in 2015 adding an additional year to the program&#8217;s series of delays.<\/p>\n<p>The new delays are blamed upon what are described as &#8220;certain procedures that aren\u2019t linked to technical matters&#8221; by sources that were not named in news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Comac indicated in 2012 that the program had 380 commitments with most being from Chinese airlines and lessors.\u00a0GE aircraft leasing has also placed a commitment for aircraft as have Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Bombardier in 2012 indicated that it planned to help Comac obtain approval from regulators outside of China for the C919 program. It was also announced in\u00a02012 that the C919 and Bombardier CSeries plane would share a common cockpit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported on August 5, 2013 that Comac will be delaying the flight flight of the C919 aircraft from 2014 to some point in 2015 adding an additional year to the program&#8217;s series of delays. The new delays are blamed upon what are described as &#8220;certain procedures that aren\u2019t linked to technical matters&#8221; by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/05\/comac-delays-c919-program-first-flight-to-2015\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[200,95,238,237],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleet-update","category-news","tag-c919","tag-comac","tag-fleet-update","tag-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}