The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Alaska Air Group, Brandon Pedersen, says the carrier group's board has elected to delay delivery of the first B737 MAX 8 to Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma International).
Speaking to journalists during a conference call last week, Pedersen said the first of the type would now only arrive in early 2018 instead of the originally anticipated autumn of 2017. No actual reason for the delay was specified.
Alaska Airlines has twenty B737 MAX 8 and seventeen MAX 9s on order from Boeing (BOE, Washington National). Additionally, it has firmed up options for five more B737-900(ER)s bringing its total order backlog for the type to nineteen.
