Air China’s C909 begins first worldwide industrial flight to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

On Tuesday at 09:35 Beijing time, Air China flight CA757, operated by the C909 plane, arrived at Chinggis Khaan Worldwide Airport in Ulaanbaatar of Mongolia after departing from Hohhot Baita Worldwide Airport, the primary worldwide industrial flight for Air China’s C909 aircraft.

This 12 months marks the fifth anniversary of Air China’s introduction of the domestically produced C909 plane. Over the previous 5 years, the airline has promoted the scaled operation of Chinese language-made civil plane. 

So far, Air China’s C909 fleet has expanded to 35 planes, accumulating over 110,000 protected flight hours and dealing with greater than 4.13 million passenger journeys. 

Based mostly at its three main operational hubs in Beijing, Chengdu, and Hohhot, the C909 fleet has operated over 30 routes with a each day scheduled flight quantity exceeding 100. 

As of now, Air China has launched 68 Belt and Highway (BRI) routes overlaying main areas in Asia, Africa, and Europe, connecting 29 nations. Through the 2025 summer-autumn season, the airline will open up extra Belt and Highway-related routes, together with Beijing-Cairo, Beijing-Tashkent, Urumqi-Tashkent, and Beijing-Almaty air methods.

China’s industrial jetliner C909, previously referred to as ARJ21, celebrated the ninth anniversary of its maiden flight on June 28.

With a structure of 78 to 97 seats, and a spread of two,225 to three,700 km, the C909 is the primary short-medium vary turbofan regional plane independently developed by China in accordance with worldwide civil aviation laws.

A complete of 166 C909 plane have been delivered to the aviation market, which have operated on greater than 700 routes and transported over 24 million passengers, Xinhua Information Company reported on Sunday.