China Stares Down Boeing Parts Shortage as Comac Stockpiles (1)

China is hunkering down for a trade war winter without American-made jets and aircraft parts.

With China banning Boeing Co. jets as part of its retaliation to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, local airlines now face the issue of repairing and maintaining hundreds of aircraft from the US manufacturer in their current fleets.

They also have to find new jets to make up for the Boeing shortfall, no small task given that Airbus SE’s production capacity is constrained and local manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd. relies on US-made engines.

A Boeing 737 Max 8 for Air China.

Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg

For now, airlines ...