The All Nippon Airways (ANA) Group intends to use existing LCC brands Peach Aviation and Vanilla Air to launch its planned medium-haul, low-cost operation—with aircraft types still to be decided.

Risk areas such as weight extremes, center-of-gravity positions, buffet boundaries and stall performance have all been addressed through the ongoing Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ flight-test program.

Embraer has not yet received a proposal from Boeing for a possible combination of the manufacturers, Embraer Commercial Aviation president and CEO John Slattery said.

Airbus and Bombardier could have a final assembly line in the US up and running within a year of a go-ahead, but it remains undecided whether the CSeries jets ordered by Delta Air Lines will be produced there or in Canada, a senior Bombardier executive said.

Chinese aircraft manufacturer COMAC appears to be prepared for another delay in first delivery of the C919 airliner, saying it could be in 2021.