東方航空成爲C919客機全球首家用戶
The Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines, one of the three major State-owned Chinese airlines, will become the first to take delivery of the homemade single-aisle passenger jet C919, domestic plane-maker Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC) revealed last Tuesday.
我國飛機制造商中國商飛公司上週二透露，三大國有航空公司之一、總部位於上海的東方航空公司將成爲國產單通道客機C919的首個交付用戶。If everything goes right, the first test flight of the 168-seat C919 is expected to be conducted by the end of the year, and conservatively speaking, it could be in early 2017, COMAC said.
商飛公司稱，如果一切順利，168座的C919客機將在今年年底進行首次試飛，保守一點的話也會在明年年初完成首次試飛。
Within one year of the test flight, COMAC and China Eastern will start discussions on the purchase of five C919 aircraft.
在C919客機試飛後的1年內，中國商飛公司和東方航空將開始進行5架客機的交易談判。
So far, COMAC has received over 570 orders of C919 from 23 customers.
目前，商飛公司已收到來自23家客戶、逾570架C919的訂單。Besides China Eastern, the planemaker also won commitments from a slew of leasing companies, including 36 from Citic Financial Leasing and 20 from SPDB Financial Leasing.
除了東方航空公司之外，該飛機制造商也獲得了一系列的租賃公司的承諾，其中包括與中信金融租賃有限公司簽署36架飛機的協議、與浦發銀行金融租賃簽署20架飛機的協議。Apart from the C919, COMAC is also pushing sales of its Advanced Regional Jet ARJ21.
除了C919客機，中國商飛公司也在推動ARJ21新支線飛機的銷售。Longhao Air signed a commitment to purchase an unspecified number of the smaller 90-seat jets, COMAC said in one statement.
中國商飛公司在一份聲明中表示，龍浩航空集團簽署了一項購買數目不詳、有90個座位的小型飛機的協議。
