China HNA Aviation Group News, HNA Thursday (April 27) signed 100 C919 and ARJ21 aircraft framework agreements with COMAC in Shanghai.
According to the surging news report, Hainan Airlines Holdings Co., Ltd. issued an announcement on the same day that HNA Holdings's holding subsidiary Urumqi Airlines, Jinpeng Aviation Co., Ltd., HNA Aviation Group Co., Ltd. and China Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd.Signed a list of C919 large passenger planes and ARJ21 new branch passenger aircraft buying and selling core terms. Urumqi Airlines intends to purchase 30 C919 aircraft from COMAC.
The report quoted the insiders of Jinpeng Airlines. In addition to the 30 C919 in Urumqi, Jinpeng Airlines also plans to purchase 30 C919.
In the agreement signed this time, in addition to the C919 aircraft, it also mentioned the order of the ARJ21 new branch passenger aircraft, which means that there are 40 ARJ21 orders.
A person who signed the scene said that it is currently signing the intention, and the order has not been completely determined. In addition, the ARJ21 order has not yet specified which specific aircraft departments were allocated to.
According to HNA Holdings 2022 annual reports, as of the end of 2022, there were 342 aircraft operating aircraft, including 260 Boeing series, 64 Airbus series, and 18 BAIA industry series.
HNA Holdings announced the announcement of the aircraft introduction plan on April 20. According to the company's development strategic plan, in order to optimize the structure of the fleet, improve the operating costs of the fleet, exert scale benefits, improve the overall fleet as a wholeIn terms of operational efficiency, the company plans to introduce 14 737MAX series aircraft and 27 A320/A321NEO series aircraft from 2023 to 2026. 41 aircraft are introduced by operating leasing.
According to the framework agreement, the two parties will negotiate the C919 aircraft purchase agreement after signing the core terms list.The two parties will specifically agree to the delivery arrangement in the C919 aircraft purchase agreement. China Commercial Fei will meet the needs of Urumqi Airlines on the required position of the aircraft as much as possible according to the actual capacity.Chinese Commercial Flying will support the financing supporting facilities, aircraft value assessment, aviation materials and tools and equipment guarantee, maintenance, operation, technology, and performance.
HNA Aviation Group said that through this procurement, HNA Aviation Group's fleet structure will be further optimized, and aviation transportation capabilities and market competitiveness will be effectively improved.In the future, the two parties will also cooperate in the fields of aircraft import and export, aviation materials maintenance, logistics warehousing, new technology application, aviation materials support, maintenance guarantee, aircraft configuration optimization and other fields.
C919 large passenger aircraft is a large jet civil aircraft developed by China and has independent intellectual property rights.The most common Airbus 320 and Boeing 737 models in the market are at the same level.
Earlier C919 has won 815 orders from 28 customers.The orders are mainly Chinese airlines and leasing companies.Among them, there are 60 orders for Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern Airlines. Chinese customers also include Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Hebei Airlines, Happiness Airlines, and 18 aviation rental companies.In addition, C919 also received orders from two foreign airlines, Germany, two foreign airlines in Pu Ren Airlines, Thailand City Aviation, and Aviation Leasing Company in the United States GECAS.
815 orders, including confirmation orders and intent orders.At present, China Eastern Airlines orders are confirmed orders. China Eastern Airlines is also the first customer in the world in C919. It plans to introduce 5 first batch.On December 9, 2022, China Eastern Airlines officially accepted the world's first global aircraft with B-919A.According to the annual annual report of China Eastern Airlines in the first half of 2022, Eastern Airlines will introduce 4 C919 in 2023.In addition, according to the previous announcement of China Eastern Airlines, the unit price of the C919 directory was RMB 653 million (S $ 126 million).
