Component supplies to Fuji Heavy Industries and deliveries from the company are assured until the end of April, as earthquake-hit suppliers progressively resume operations or dispatch parts from stocks. Fuji, one of Japan’s four big aerospace companies and a key partner in the Boeing 787 program, is improvising to mitigate the effects of power stoppages, which it said last week were a bigger problem than physical damage to suppliers’ factories.

Bombardier and Comac may be laying the foundation for a third force in commercial aircraft manufacturing with a framework agreement under which they will coordinate their respective CSeries and C919 designs to create a series of interoperable airliners. The intended long-term cooperative relationship would give sales support to Comac, Chinese market access to Bombardier, and the synergies of a broader product offering to both.

No aerospace suppliers to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have reported production difficulties from either earthquake damage or a shortage of electricity, a spokesman for the company says. Mitsubishi, itself located far from the epicenter of the March 11 earthquake and knocked-out power stations, has also had no trouble as a result of damage or electricity stoppages, the spokesman says.