{"id":4949,"date":"2019-06-11T10:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2019-06-11T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:59:05","slug":"boeing-may-deliveries-fall-56-on-737-max-groundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4949","title":{"rendered":"Boeing May Deliveries Fall 56% on 737 MAX Groundings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/max-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/max-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/max-1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption> FILE PHOTO:  An aerial photo shows Boeing 737 MAX airplanes parked on the tarmac at the Boeing Factory in Renton, Washington<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Boeing Co said on Tuesday it handed over 56% fewer airplanes in May, compared with a year earlier, as deliveries of its top-selling 737 MAX jet remained suspended following a deadly crash in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total deliveries fell to 30 planes, compared with 68 in 2018. Net orders for the first five months remained in negative territory, with a total of minus 125 net orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company has been facing its worst ever crisis after an Ethiopian Airlines&#8217; 737 MAX plane crashed, killing all 157 people on board, in the second fatal accident involving the jet in just five months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boeing reiterated on Sunday it was working with global regulators to certify a software update for the jet as well as related training and education material to safely return the plane to service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global airlines that had rushed to buy the fuel-efficient, longer-range aircraft have since canceled flights and scrambled to cover routes that were previously flown by the MAX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European rival Airbus SE delivered 81 aircraft in May, up 59% from last year and 313 in the January-May period, a rise of 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boeing shares were down 0.6% at $351.44 in morning trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D&#8217;Silva)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co said on Tuesday it handed over 56% fewer airplanes in May, compared with a year earlier, as deliveries of its top-selling 737 MAX jet remained suspended following a deadly crash in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4813,89,799,2203,1397,868],"tags":[45,539,47,464,118,160,41,5185,5183,736,3932,3025,2956,5184,2406,3724,5182,3149,482,1757,1915,3786,982,2419,2948,46,4422,412,3119,503,3075,3871,1288,3787,4255,5181,1970,1691,1658,1116],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airplane-news","category-aviation-news","category-boeing-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","tag-45","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-airlines","tag-aviation","tag-boeing","tag-canceled","tag-certify","tag-crash","tag-crisis","tag-deadly","tag-deliveries","tag-education","tag-efficient","tag-ethiopian","tag-fall","tag-fatal","tag-flights","tag-fuel","tag-global","tag-grounding","tag-lion","tag-long","tag-material","tag-max","tag-may","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-plane","tag-range","tag-regulator","tag-reuters","tag-software","tag-suspended","tag-total","tag-training","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}