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Re:Boeing and Airbus, the new ‘super duopoly’ by ubernostrum on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:08AM (#16938962)
Russia and China are both in the small mainline-jet market. Russia with the Sukhoi SuperJet, China with the Comac C919.

China's AICC is also buying the rights to produce An-225s, including the tooling and training, supposedly in order to jump forward a bit more on engine tech (the C919 will use CFM Leap engines built overseas.

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Re:Boeing and Airbus, the new ‘super duopoly’ by pouetpouet on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:23AM (#16939244)
Japan will also have the Mitsubishi Regional Jet with 90 seats.
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Re:Boeing and Airbus, the new ‘super duopoly’ by ubernostrum on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:57AM (#16939361)
They're developing it, yes. But I'm not expecting it to be much of a success, assuming it ever properly goes on the market at all.

Russia and China have a bit more leverage to get their airlines to buy home-grown aircraft.

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