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szdaily -> Business/Markets -> 
Comac nears aircraft order from Africa
    2019-03-22  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

CHINESE planemaker Comac is nearing an order from an airline in Ghana, an advance overseas for the State-owned company as it attempts to become a real challenger to Boeing Co. and Airbus SE.

Africa World Airlines Ltd. (AWA), partly owned by China’s HNA Group Co., may agree this month to buy two Comac ARJ21 regional jets, said the carrier’s CEO John Quan.

Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd., or Comac, is part of China’s bid to build an aerospace industry from scratch — and gain more international clout. But so far, its orders have mostly been limited to domestic buyers such as China’s carriers.

“Our Chinese shareholders are very keen to introduce the aircraft to boost China-Africa trade relations,” said Quan. Comac executives will be in Ghana’s capital Accra, where AWA is based, in late March to possibly sign a memorandum of understanding with the airline, he said.

A Comac representative said the company isn’t aware of any imminent ARJ21 order from AWA but referred to an earlier agreement with HNA that the Chinese conglomerate plans to operate 100 of the planes in the future.

With about 80 to 90 seats, ARJ21 competes with ERJ planes made by Embraer SA, the Brazilian company forming a partnership with Boeing, and the A220, designed by Bombardier Inc. but marketed by Airbus. The Republic of Congo ordered three ARJ21s in 2014, and AWA is just one of the African airlines now being targeted.

Comac is also building the C919, a narrow-body passenger plane that will compete with Boeing’s 737 Max and the Airbus A320neo.

Any African breakthrough would come as Boeing grapples with the worldwide grounding of the MAX, the company’s fastest-selling plane, after two disasters involving the model in five months.

(SD-Agencies)

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