Boeing 737 MAX may not return to service until August - IATA head

 

FILE PHOTO: A Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits outside the hangar during a media tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington December 8, 2015. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight/File Photo

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects it could take until August before the Boeing Co 737 MAX returns to service, the airline group's head said on Wednesday, adding that the final say on the timing rested with regulators.

 

The 737 MAX was grounded globally in March after a crash in Ethiopia killed all 157 people on board, the model's second deadly crash in five months.

"We do not expect something before 10 to 12 weeks in re-entry into service," IATA Director General Alexandre de Juniac told reporters in Seoul. "But it is not our hands. That is in the hands of regulators."

 

IATA plans to organise a summit with airlines, regulators and the manufacturer in 5 to 7 weeks to discuss what is needed for the 737 MAX to return to service, he said.

 

At an IATA meeting in Montreal last week, airline members said they wanted regulators to cooperate closely on the decision for the plane's re-entry to service, de Juniac said.

 

"We hope that they will align their timeframe," he said of regulators.

 

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) expects to approve the jet's return to service as soon as late June, representatives of the U.S. air regulator informed members of the United Nations' aviation agency in a private briefing last week, sources told Reuters.

 

U.S. operators United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and American Airlines have removed the planes from their flight schedules until early to mid August.

 

(Reporting by Heekyong Yang in Seoul; additional reporting by Jamie Freed in Singapore; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

 

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I hope they will not give in to business interests

and make sure those desasters cannot happen again.

We saw how hard they tried to keep the deadly aircrafts flying

in the beginning - not caring about safety.

 

If they cannot make sure those planes can be safe 

they should be discarded

I suppose the first few flights will be free to Guinea pigs to try

and build confidence in the airplane,I would not even fly free

on one,until maybe another year in service without problems.

regards Worgeordie

Boeing have created, with the redesign with larger engines for the 737Max, a fundamental unsafe design. Now with some bandaid, Boeing tries to counter this, but see what happens the fundamental unsafe design was continued in the corrective action control system (a deadly action that relies on only one sensor; an apprentice in instrumentation control does know that that is unsafe) 

the proper desing shall be KISS keep it simple stupid,

So Boeing better to redisign this 737 max plan such that the bandaid system is not required, as should be.

Why bother - ditch them. With all the bad publicity nobody will want to buy them or fly in them. They will probably be revamped to exclude "MAX".

1 hour ago, ardsong said:

Boeing have created, with the redesign with larger engines for the 737Max, a fundamental unsafe design. Now with some bandaid, Boeing tries to counter this, but see what happens the fundamental unsafe design was continued in the corrective action control system (a deadly action that relies on only one sensor; an apprentice in instrumentation control does know that that is unsafe) 

the proper desing shall be KISS keep it simple stupid,

So Boeing better to redisign this 737 max plan such that the bandaid system is not required, as should be.

Not going to happen: the bandaid will be approved by the FAA, after which Europe and others will follow. I am hoping Europe will reject the bandaid, but I'm afraid it will not.

they are worried about the airplanes.  the IATA freight and passenger data released just today shows we can handle a short term shortage of the global air fleet for now..... while they pause to let the news of two recent crashes settle down no matter what actual fixes they make.

as for the customers that fly on those planes.... if they were really of concern, my opinion, we might be looking at something a tad more serious than "CORSIA offsets"..... in 2027.. on international flights only.  juuuust maybe!

but we are not.  the good news is the Greens got more seats in the EU parliament and Bas Eickhout listed out "properly tackling aviation" [The Guardian, 'Truimphant Greens....' May 28, 2019] as priority number 2.  does he mean as versus the CORSIA offsets... or stuff like lawsuits against single airport expansions such as Heathrow?  his use of the word "properly" in that.

anyone?    

 

Edited May 30, 20197 yr by WeekendRaider

Oh,no...

 

More problems for Boeing.

 

Aeromexico B738 at Tijuana on Dec 12th 2018, radome damage on final approach

Quote

On May 31st 2019 Boeing reported that a visual inspection of the radome did not show any evidence of a hard or soft body impact, no DNA material was found. Boeing concluded: "The review showed that an interface seal was installed around the entire periphery of the radome with no openings.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4c185005&opt=0

 

Edited June 1, 20197 yr by Scott
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