Mitsubishi posticipa il Regional Jet

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TOKYO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp, a unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, will push back the initial deliveries of its regional jet to mid-2017 due to problems with procuring engines, the Nikkei business daily reported on Thursday.

The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), Japan's first commercial aircraft in half a century, was set to start being delivered to customers in 2015.

The Nikkei said the company was facing delays in engine deliveries from Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp.

A Mitsubishi Aircraft spokesman declined to comment on the Nikkei report. The company is set to hold a news conference in Tokyo at 0800 GMT.

Mitsubishi Aircraft already has 165 firm orders for the MRJ. The company has pushed back the jet's test flight and delivery schedule twice so far.

The plane, which has 70-90 seats, has a sticker price of $42 million. It aims to compete with jets made by Brazil's Embraer and Canada's Bombardier. The first delivery of the jet, developed at a cost of $1.9 billion, will go to Japanese airline ANA Holdings.


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[Veolia]

visti i prezzi reali di mercato dei narrows ed il costo medio del carburante, oltre alla crisi in euroamerica direi che non c'e' spazio per i regional jet al momento
svetta di sicuro embraer, ma ancora per poco

 

[Dr Gio]

ma uno spazio nel mercato asiatico? cresce ancora tanto, inoltre le compagnie giapponesi per motivi di interessi nazionali (e supporto del governo nazionale, vedi per esempio il ruolo della Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in molte politiche) potrebbero optare per aerei di questo tipo, forse?

 

[Veolia]

direi di no.
il regional serve per di piu' all'hub and spoke euro americano, che e' in crisi, soprattutto in europa dove quasi meta' delle le regional sono sparite a favore di LCC,in oriente queste macchine non servono.
basta vedere le scarse vendite di EMB con macchina non meravigliosa ma ottima struttura vendita e gestione, ed il fallimento degli altri compreso l'ARJ21.
in oriente servono altre macchine e si vede bene

 

[kenyaprince]

Mitsubishi Aircraft has completed the wing-body join of the first MRJ regional jet test aircraft.The mating of the wings with the aircraft’s fuselage took place at the company’s Nagoya Aerospace Works factory, says Mitsubishi in a statement.“The wing-body combination marks another major milestone toward MRJ’s completion,” it says.Following the successful wing join, Mitsubishi will attach an engine pylon from Sprit AeroSystems, and subsequently mount the Pratt & Whitney PW1200G engine it received recently.

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