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), the two said on Thursday, while warning they are losing customers as their Boeing 737 MAX jets remain parked in a global grounding.
Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said the airline is losing 6 million to 7 million customers a year due to the 737 MAX grounding, but said he expects to “aggressively recapture” lost market share once the jets return. For Southwest, the world’s largest 737 MAX operator with nearly 10,000 pilots, the training process will take at least a couple of months more than the 30 days that it initially expected now that Boeing is recommending simulator training rather than just computer based training.
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