{"id":4999,"date":"2019-06-14T08:23:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:23:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:23:52","slug":"norwegian-air-expects-737-max-grounded-through-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4999","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Air Expects 737 MAX Grounded Through August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FILE PHOTO: Bjoern Kjos, CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, attends a press conference presenting quarterly report of the company, in Oslo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

PARIS (Reuters) – Norwegian Air expects Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft to remain grounded until at least the end of August, missing the European summer season, CEO Bjoern Kjos said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you ask Boeing they still say June or July,\u201d Kjos said at the Paris Air Forum. \u201cBut we\u2019re already in mid-June – we’ve planned for the MAX to be out until the end of August.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 300 Boeing 737 MAX jets have been grounded worldwide after two fatal crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia killed nearly 350 people. Some airlines now expect the plane to remain out of action until the end of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norwegian, which operated 18 of the planes, has said the grounding will raise its costs by up to 500 million Norwegian crowns ($58 million). The low-cost, long-haul operator has delayed disposal of older Boeing 737 models or prolonged leasing contracts while it waits for their MAX replacements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing is awaiting a decisions by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on software improvements it proposed after the crashes and whether to require additional pilot training before flights can resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If more training is ordered, a shortage of simulators means that \u201cit might be much longer\u201d before commercial flights resume, Kjos said. \u201cFor some operators it could take up to a year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a customer of Boeing\u2019s GoldCare maintenance program, however, the CEO said Norwegian might not have to wait that long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019d hope to be at the front of the queue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Reporting by Laurence Frost and Tim Hepher; Editing by David Goodman)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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