COMAC, IAG sign MoU   

中国商飞公司拟与国际航空巨头建立联合工作组

在业内颇具盛名的英国范堡罗航展7月9日正式开幕，远赴英伦参展的中国大型客机研制单位中国商用飞机有限责任公司(中国商飞公司)与当今世界最大航空集团公司之一的国际航空集团，在航展现场签署谅解备忘录，双方拟建立联合工作组，推进务实交流与合作。

London (CNS) -- The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC) and the International Airlines Group (IAG) signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Farnborough International Airshow 2012 on Monday local time.

The MoU includes items for cooperative effort: technology and operation requirements, regulations, financing, and client and product services for the former's C919 large passenger aircraft.

IAG CEO Willie Walsh addressed the crowd at the signing ceremony saying that he has been following the development process of the C919 since 2008 when COMAC was founded and is convinced that COMAC will become a competent manufacturer on par with Boeing and Airbus.

The world's largest airlines company, IAG, was created by a merger of British Airways and Spanish Iberia Airlines in 2011. It owns a number of airline sub operations each with fleets of large 150-seater planes.