Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are parked on the tarmac after being grounded, at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California on March 28, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images The Boeing 737 Max won’t return to service at Southwest Airlines until February at the earliest, the union that represents the airline’s pilots said Monday. That would be a month later than the low-cost carrier currently expects. Boeing is scrambling to finish software changes and put them in front of government regulators for review to get the manufacturer’s best-selling plane flying again. Two fatal crashes within five months of one another killed 346 people and prompted a worldwide grounding, now in its eighth month. Boeing has estimated it would receive this approval in the fourth quarter, but regulators say they don’t have a firm timeline. The approval process has been delayed several times as Boeing seeks to address additional concerns from regulators. “We still anticipate submitting that certification package to the FAA in the September time frame,” Boeing’s CEO Dennis Muilenburg said in August. Boeing’s board last week replaced Muilenburg as chairman so the CEO could focus on the 737 Max grounding, which has dragged on… Read full this story
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