Apart from the full line competitors, of Boeing and Airbus, MRJ must face off directly with the well-established Canadian Bombardier and Brazilian Embraer.
During this week, at the Paris Air Show, Mitsubishi Aircraft and Boeing Corp. signed an agreement under which Boeing ground crews will provide maintenance support for MRJ aircraft on a global basis.
This chart compares the performance of 12 VMs. Except for Apple Computer's Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ), all of the JVMs were tested on the same hardware and with the same Java application code.
The day after the post came a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (May 25, 2012) that MHI has encountered quality problems in its MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet) program that will delay deliveries by a year.
Clearly, if MHI is going to make a business of this (as well as of its short haul MRJ commercial jet) it is going to have to find a way to cut its costs and reduce prices to customers.