About 90% of Boeing’s China 737 MAX jets have resumed commercial operation as of the end of June, the U.S. aircraft maker said on its official WeChat account on Wednesday.
Some planes have been dispatched to regional international routes, Sherry Carbary, president of Boeing China, said in the article.
China grounded all 737 MAXs in 2019 after two fatal crashes of the model.
According to official information, Chinese carriers grounded all 96 jets they had at the time. State-owned China Southern Airlines was the country’s first carrier to resume flying the 737 MAX in January.
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Since then, Chinese airlines have been gradually reintroducing the model back to operation. In April, Boeing estimated that half of the country’s MAX fleet was in operation.
“By the end of June, about 90% of China’s 737 MAX fleet had resumed commercial operations, with some of the aircraft placed on regional international routes connecting domestic cities to a number of destinations in Central Asia and Southeast Asia,” Carbary said.
Boeing, however, is yet to resume deliveries to China, a key market where it has lost ground to arch rival Airbus SE in part due to geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, Reuters reported.
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