China's aviation administration (CAAC) confirmed on Monday that China Eastern Airlines will receive the first Comac-built C919 aircraft in December. The C919 is designed to compete with popular single-aisle models made by Airbus and Boeing .
China Eastern has purchased the first batch of five C919s, thus becoming the jet's first operator.
China Eastern has said that the carrier and its subsidiary airlines plan to deploy the C919s on their most popular domestic routes from Shanghai: to Beijing's Daxing airport, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in southern Guangdong Province, Chengdu in southwestern Sichuan Province, Xiamen in southeastern Fujian Province, Wuhan in central Hubei Province and Qingdao in eastern Shandong Province.
