Deliveries of Boeing's best-selling 737 MAX jets were effectively frozen on...
DUBLIN/SEATTLE - Deliveries of Boeing’s best-selling 737 MAX jets were effectively frozen on Wednesday, though production continued, after the United States joined a global grounding of the narrowbody model over safety concerns, industry sources said.
Airlines, aircraft industry experts and financiers said that although the ban would theoretically not prevent some domestic deliveries, most airlines would avoid taking a jet banned from entering service on the wake of two crashes in five months. Boeing is expected to continue with production of the 737 at its factory outside Seattle, and has been planning to speed up production again in June.
Boeing’s main U.S. customers — Southwest Airlines, American Airlines Group Inc and United Airlines — declined comment. So far they have voiced their confidence in the safety of the MAX. “We are still a few weeks behind the requirement, but have a line of sight to be back on track in the second quarter of this year,” CFM spokeswoman Jamie Jewell said.
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