Mon, 23rd November: With the FAA releasing the 737 MAX back into service, many airlines are still reluctant about the future of the aircraft.
ALASKA AIRLINES
However Alaska Airlines announced a transaction that continues the optimization of its mainline fleet.
Alaska will sell 10 Airbus A320s to Air Lease Corporation, and subsequently lease 13 new Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft from them.
The 13 737-9 MAX aircraft will be delivered from Q4 2021 through 2022.
The 13 leased aircraft are in addition to the 32 MAX Alaska currently has on order with Boeing – 5 of which are expected to be flying by summer 2021.
Alaska will begin flying the 737-9 MAX in March 2021. Alaska will lease the A320s back from Air Lease for a short period of time after the transaction closes.
CAIRO
(Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates civil aviation regulator said on Sunday it would announce a return schedule for the Boeing 737 MAX in a timely manner after the United States last week lifted a 20-month-old flight ban on the jet, the state news agency WAM reported.
“The General Authority of Civil Aviation will issue a safety decision stipulating the technical requirements to ensure the safe return of service for the Boeing 737 ‘Max’ aircraft, and will announce the schedule for the return authorization in a timely manner,” WAM cited the regulator as saying.
The regulator said it continued to work with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on the process. The UAE carrier flydubai is a major buyer of the narrow-body plane.
