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Passengers take pictures in front of a C919 aircraft on June 14, 2024. /CMG
China Eastern Airlines (CEA) started flying its C919 aircraft on a fourth commercial route on Friday, connecting Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Flight MU5309, carrying 162 passengers, took off from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport at 9:37 a.m. and arrived at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport at 11:55 a.m. The return flight, MU5316, was scheduled to depart Guangzhou at 1:30 p.m. and touch down in Shanghai by 4:00 p.m.
At present, CEA is the sole carrier operating the domestically manufactured large aircraft C919, with its fleet now comprising six C919 planes. Notably, the airline's flight capacity on the Shanghai-Guangzhou route has surged to 36 daily flights, showing robust connectivity between the two major cities.
The sixth C919 jetliner joined the CEA fleet last month, indicating the acceleration of commercial operation of China's domestically built large passenger aircraft. This came one year after the first C919 commercial flight was made. With its self-developed trunk jetliner, China aims to secure a share of a global civil aviation market currently dominated by Boeing and Airbus.
Over the past year of commercial operation, the C919 aircraft has been operating on three routes from Shanghai: from Hongqiao International Airport to Chengdu Tianfu International Airport in Sichuan Province, from Hongqiao to Beijing Daxing International Airport and from Hongqiao to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport in Shaanxi Province.