✈️ Exclusive Benefits for Readers
Verified codes to save on your next trip.
The airline American Airlines hopes that the return of Boeing 737 MAX It's due in January 2020, It even proposes an exact date for the expected return to service of the controversial aircraft..
Parece ser que la «quedada en tierra» obligatoria del 737 MAX would be close to its end and the airlines would have begun to prepare for this expected event. American Airlines in an official statement announced that this would be the case in January of next year.
American Airlines anticipates that impending software updates to the Boeing 737 MAX will lead to the recertification of the aircraft later this year and the resumption of commercial service in January 2020. We are in continuous contact with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Transportation ( DOT).
In the press release, The airline specifies that the new scheduled day for this plane to return to the flight line would be 16 of January of 2020.
It's worth say, that this will be at least the fifth new scheduled date for the MAX to return to the air, this after direct and permanent contacts that the airlines make with Boeing and with the North American aeronautical authorities, but all, It is subject to changes that may occur in the recertification process and the acceptance of each of the aeronautical authorities to accept these processes as valid..
It will be in the end, decision of each regulator to accept or require each airline to process additional processes to those carried out by the manufacturer and the FAA, although the last option will also be the final user or passenger in accept to fly or not in this aircraft that without a doubt, There will still be several obstacles ahead., what is it like to recover market confidence.
Finally, American Airlines details some additional details passengers should keep in mind:
- Customers who in a MAX up to 6 from January: all customers who have previously booked on a MAX will be automatically changed on the same flights operated by a 737-800 with the same seating configuration. No additional new reservation will be required.
- Customers who have booked a MAX since 7 from January to 15 from January: most of these customers will fly on the same flight operated by a different aircraft type, which may include a 737-800 or an Airbus plane. From 13 October, American's reservations and sales team will contact affected customers who are affected by potential flight cancellations. Customers who booked through a travel agent will be contacted by their agency directly.
- From 16 from January: American expects to slowly bring the MAX into commercial service and will increase flights on the plane throughout the month and into February.
✈️ Exclusive Benefits for Readers
Search here for hotels ALL over the world at the best price.
