Its biggest supplier, Spirit, will shut down production of 737 MAX fuselages, while United Airlines is pushing back its plans to restart flying the plane to June 4.
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Renton, WA, for final assembly. Following Boeing's suspension of MAX production announcement on Monday, Spirit is suspending its MAX work. Meanwhile, United Airlines, which had to park 14 MAX planes and stop taking delivery of others nine months ago when the Federal Aviation Administration took away the MAX’s certification, said today that it has pushed back plans to bring the MAX back into its schedule all the way to June 4.
TWU officials thanked Kelly and Lacore for efforts to help ease attendants’ problems thus far through the MAX groundings. But they also raised concerns about Southwest’s plans to continue training more new attendants even though the MAX won’t be in service for an unknown amount of time. At the time their letter was written Southwest was still planning tentatively to resume service in March. It is not yet known if that target time frame will be pushed back once again, as United did just today.
But it’s not known now how long Spirit will be able to carry such a large group of workers without much work to do. Boeing hasn’t said so publicly, but it is believed to be paying Spirit at least some of what it would normally pay the company for production of MAX fuselages.
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