Australia lifts ban Boeing 737 MAX flights.
Australia announced Friday that it is lifting the ban on flights of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to and from the oceanic country, which it imposed two years ago following air crashes in 2018 and 2019 involving such aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
See also: UAE authorizes the resumption of Boeing 737 MAX flights.
The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority specified that its decision, which makes it the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to take it, comes after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Union Safety Agency (EASA) gave the green light to changes made by Boeing to the 737 MAX model to resume operations.
See also: Alaska Airlines takes delivery its first Boeing 737 MAX.
“Our airworthiness and engineering team has assessed that there are no additional return to service requirements to operate in Australia,” Graeme Crawford, a senior official with the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), said in a statement.
CASA said that no airlines in the country have purchased these Boeing models and although Singapore-based Silk Air and Fiji Airlines have 737 MAX aircraft, it is not known when they will be able to resume operations in Australia.
The oceanic country has kept its borders closed, with some exceptions including the return of its residents and citizens, since last March and it is believed that it will potentially open them progressively by the end of October, when it finishes its vaccination campaign that began this week.
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