Summary Air China receives 29th ARJ21 aircraft, becoming the operator with the largest fleet, for now. COMAC has delivered 142 ARJ21 aircraft across 12 customers in China and abroad. ARJ21 program could face overcapacity issues by the end of 2025 without new orders or customers.
Last Thursday, COMAC delivered its 29th ARJ21 aircraft (registration number: B-656L) to Air China . With this delivery, Air China's ARJ21 fleet temporarily surpassed that of Chengdu Airlines and China Southern Airlines , making it the airline with the largest ARJ21 fleet. Since COMAC delivered the first ARJ21 to Chengdu Airlines on November 29, 2015, Chengdu Airlines, as the launch customer for the ARJ21, has been the airline with the largest ARJ21 fleet for nearly nine years.
According to Flightradar data, the B-656L aircraft was put into operation by Air China's Southwestern Branch yesterday, the fourth day after its delivery. It operated a route from its base in Chengdu to Quzhou, a city in western Zhejiang Province, with a total flight time of 4 hours and 32 minutes. Today (the 20th), it operated a route from Chengdu to Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, with a total flight time of 4 hours and 28 minutes.
Find more news about Asian aviation here Airlines operating the ARJ21 COMAC has delivered 142 ARJ21 aircraft so far. According to statistics from Simple Flying, these 142 aircraft are distributed among 12 customers, including 11 in China and 1 outside China ; 10 are engaged in passenger.