The boss of Ryanair has threatened to cancel orders with American aircraft maker Boeing and buy from Chinese manufacturers instead if Donald Trump’s trade tariffs push up costs.
The boss of Ryanair has threatened to cancel orders with American aircraft maker Boeing and buy from Chinese manufacturers instead if Donald Trump’s trade tariffs push up costs.
Everyone chill. COMAC doesn’t even have an EASA rating to fly in Europe yet.
Not only that, they don’t have the production ability to fullfill 5% of China’s requirements for single aisle jets. Ryanair would be very far down the queue. It’s a classic O’ Leary bullshit announcement.
COMAC is aiming to increase production of the C919 to 75 planes a year. Airbus is aiming to increase production of the A320 to 75 planes a month