Will the new Chinese manufacturer Comac succeed in establishing itself alongside the Airbus-Boeing duo? The rise of China in the very strategic aeronautics sector, for which it represents the world’s largest market, is leading Europeans and Americans to close ranks.
The United States and the European Union on Tuesday suspended for five years the punitive customs duties they inflict on themselves in the context of the old conflict between them on public aid to their aircraft manufacturers. According to US President Joe Biden, it is about “working together to challenge and counter China’s non-commercial practices in the (aeronautics) sector, which give Chinese companies an unfair advantage”.
In the background, Beijing’s frantic efforts to bring out its national aircraft manufacturer Comac (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China). This is developing a twin-jet, the C919, intended to compete with the A320 and B737. After four years of flight tests, Comac expects to obtain certification for the C919 in China this year, in time to commemorate the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
The aircraft has received between $ 49 billion and $ 72 billion in public subsidies for its development, far more than the aid that Airbus and Boeing were able to receive, according to calculations by Scott Kennedy, a China specialist at the International Center for Strategic Studies (CSIS). For Richard Aboulafia, aeronautical expert for Teal Group, “the real problem is that the (…)
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