Production rate is the tell—ten deliveries in a decade isn’t scale.
Reliability sells airplanes; politics just leases them time.
Great domestic momentum, but foreign MRO networks decide the future.
Range and fuel burn vs A320neo/737 MAX still look second best.
Airlines will ask: what’s the residual value on a C919?
Training commonality and sims availability are hidden battlegrounds.
Availability beats perfection—if they can actually deliver.
“Gatekeeper” strategy by the U.S. is brutally effective.
I’ll believe triopoly when I see third-party on-time performance stats.
CJ-1000A is the joker card—timeline and reliability decide everything.