Mitsubishi RJ late, lost composite wing!

See
[www.mrj-japan.com]

The plane remains unfrozen for another ten months, and EIS is delayed into 2014. Composite wing is dumped and replaced by aluminum one. The fuselage is also changed, expanding cabin height from 198 to 204 cm and width from 264 to 276 cm. A stretch variant shall be added. Belly hold is also dumped, baggage can only go in tail. That means presumably no belly cargo doors (check your MRJ photos).

I kind of have a feeling that this plane will only sell to like 3 Asian carriers like every other Asian-built RJ... Nice looking think though. But I prefer the C-Series.

Saw it on FlightGlobal.
Doubt it will sell well in the U.S., but I bet future Mitsubishi models will. It will end up like the auto industry, I am sure.

> Doubt it will sell well in the U.S.

It has:

[www.flightglobal.com]

I could not find any plane here in TSA livery. Could someone make it?

Saw that on a.net and have been wondering who TSA was! Well, its interesting to see an Asian aircraft being ordered and operated here in the states.

I still think the C-series will be a better catch.

However the CS-Series is made Bombardier, one of the big 4 manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier). It automatically will recieve attention because of airline loyalty to bombardier aircraft, meaning they could get good deals on CS-Series. And for airlines looking for older in age 737s and A320 replacements, it's a likely option, due to the large amounts of capacity both the CS100 and CS-300 have for an aircraft in their sector.

MRJ and Cseries are actually not very close competitors.

Maximum seat capacity, high-density single class:

MRJ70 - 78
MRJ90 - 92

CS100 - 125
CS300 - 145

Range at full passenger payload:

shortest MRJ MRJ70STD 1590 km
longest MRJ MRJ70LR 3410 km

CSeries non-ER 4070 km
Cseries ER 5460 km

MTOW:

MRJ70STD 36 850 kg
MRJ90LR 42 800 kg

CS100 54 930 kg
CS300ER 63 320 kg

EIS both types 2014.

Airlines indeed are buisnesses, that's not the point. Like chornedsnorkack stated, they are barely even in competion with eachother, so the cost naturally will be lower with the Mitsubishi because it's a smaller plane with less distance. So obviously the customer in the US was looking for a less seated airliner. Airlines like Lufthansa/Swiss who were looking to replace their older A320s, have ordered the CS-Series. The MRJ competes more with E190 and 195. The C-Series competes with the 737-600, A318, and A319. It has nothing to do with the plane being built in China.