The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ for its acronym in English) took off on a flight of one hour from Nagoya Airport to test the ability of its manufacturer, Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. to service the aircraft of 100 seats after three years of delays.
The unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which manufactured the times of World War II Zero fighter, expected $ 47 million regional aircraft to help to end up with the position of the Canadian Bombardier Inc. as the second largest aircraft manufacturer of narrow fuselage behind Brazil's Embraer SA.
The MRJ of Japan is the first commercial passenger aircraft since the YS-11 - 64 seats - entered service 50 years ago.
The first MRJ should be delivered in June of 2017 to the largest airline of Japan, ANA Holdings. Mitsubishi aims to sell more than 2,000 aircraft in the competitive sector of air transport to reach.
So far the company has secured 223 orders, of which the most recent order was carried out in January when Japan Airlines requested 32 aircraft. The largest single order, by up to 200 units, came from regional American Group SkyWest Inc.
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Mitsubishi says that the MRJ consumes one-fifth less fuel that ships of similar size, thanks to a new generation of engines from Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.
(Tim Kelly report. Published in Spanish by Marion Giraldo)
The first commercial aircraft of Japan in half a century made on Wednesday its inaugural test flight, in a milestone for the efforts of China to establish an industry of aircraft that can compete with some of the largest global aviation companies.
The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ for its acronym in English) took off on a flight of one hour from Nagoya Airport to test the ability of its manufacturer, Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. to service the aircraft of 100 seats after three years of delays.
The unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which manufactured the times of World War II Zero fighter, expected $ 47 million regional aircraft to help to end up with the position of the Canadian Bombardier Inc. as the second largest aircraft manufacturer of narrow fuselage behind Brazil's Embraer SA.
The MRJ of Japan is the first commercial passenger aircraft since the YS-11 - 64 seats - entered service 50 years ago.
The first MRJ should be delivered in June of 2017 to the largest airline of Japan, ANA Holdings. Mitsubishi aims to sell more than 2,000 aircraft in the competitive sector of air transport to reach.
So far the company has secured 223 orders, of which the most recent order was carried out in January when Japan Airlines requested 32 aircraft. The largest single order, by up to 200 units, came from regional American Group SkyWest Inc.
Mitsubishi says that the MRJ consumes one-fifth less fuel that ships of similar size, thanks to a new generation of engines from Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.
The revelation made by Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc that a reduction in the profits of 350 million pounds (533 million dollars) expected for the coming year is due in large part to the lower use of older wide-body aircraft last week surprised investors who believed the cheap oil to popularise this type of aircraft.
The reality, said the Chief Executive Officer Warren East in an interview, is that models such as the A340 from Airbus Group SE, out of production, and the 777 older Boeing Co. they are not preferred even with cheap fuel, as long as the airlines are adding massive amounts of new aircraft in an Asian market that is feeling the strain caused by the economic slowdown in China.
This reality is affecting maintenance revenue by Rolls-Royce, based in London. The company derives most of its income of implementation work to calculated according to the number of flying hours.
"China definitely affected in a serious way to the Asian economy," said East, which attributed 150 million pounds of the revision to the problems of wide-body models. "The economies are depressed, travels fewer people and fewer loads are transported. It has been that some Asian airlines are parking their planes for that".
