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Three Points: 737 Max recertification trials, Comac’s ARJ21 hat trick, Airbus autonomous landings

Jon Ostrower·June 30, 2020

With FAA recertification flights underway, Boeing's last leg to service re-entry for the 737 Max has begun. Comac makes a triple ARJ21 delivery, signaling an important new phase for the China's aerospace manufacturing proving ground. Airbus autonomous airliner flights trials wrap up and illustrate the different paths toward letting and aircraft make their own decisions.

Comac resurfaces bigger and smaller C919s and new electric commuter

Jon Ostrower·November 9, 2023

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Signs of acceleration from China and Comac at the start of a new decade

Jon Ostrower·January 7, 2020

737 Max grounding threatens to unravel the aviation certification world order

Jon Ostrower·April 3, 2019

On October 27, 2017, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Civil Aviation Administration of China expanded its regulatory cooperation for...

A new Boeing 737 Max for Air China rolls out of the paint hangar at Renton, Wash. on March 23, 2021. Photo Credit Woody's Aeroimages.

Jetliner diplomacy between the U.S. and China looks a long way off

Jon Ostrower·March 24, 2021

Boeing has started building 737 Max aircraft again for China, but the plane maker Comac -- its Chinese counterpart -- are at the mercy of the peculiar adversarial interdependence between China and the U.S.

China and Russia soften on CR929 tech transfer requirement

Jon Ostrower·December 5, 2018

Against the backdrop of the escalating on-again, off-again trade war with the U.S., China and Russia have moved away from...

Boeing nears, but doesn’t yet clear, the first of three 737 Max hurdles in China

Jon Ostrower·November 1, 2022

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateNovember 1, 2022Boeing nears, but doesn’t yet clear, the first of three...

Boeing postures for a long freeze inside China

Jon Ostrower·September 29, 2022

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Five years since the pandemic, an uneven recovery persists for aircraft manufacturers

Jon Ostrower·January 9, 2025

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A different way to think about the future of flying in China

Jon Ostrower·September 8, 2022

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber Release DateSeptember 8, 2022A different way to think about the future of flying...

Boeing rolls-out final 747

Jon Ostrower·December 7, 2022

EVERETT — It was the one-thousand five-hundredth and seventy-fourth — and final — time a 747 left Boeing’s Everett, Washington...

CAAC clears 737 Max, but aviation in China is different 33 months later

Jon Ostrower·December 2, 2021

Yet, even with this key development, the jet will return to a transforming Chinese aviation ecosystem that bears little resemblance to the world just before the Max was grounded in March 2019. Since then, the dynamics between the U.S. and China have shifted considerably, along with a pandemic that has reshaped its logistical relationship with the world. And all this against the backdrop of major shifts in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s approach to western business.