China’s ARJ21 regional aircraft serves on new route

According to the airline’s fleet development plan, it will receive two more ARJ21 airplanes in 2020. It is expected to have 35 ARJ21 airplanes by 2024. (File pic shows a China Southern aircraft (Not the ARJ 21)

SHANGHAI: China’s independently developed ARJ21 regional aircraft has been plying on a new domestic route operated by China Southern Airlines, according to its developer Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC).

The route connects Shanghai and Jieyang, south China’s Guangdong Province, and it is the airline’s third route in which ARJ21 is operating, said COMAC.