TUI fly (Germany) (X3, Hanover) must further adjust its schedules as the worldwide grounding of the B737 MAX continues, CEO Oliver Lackmann has told Air Transport World. With the leisure carrier now not expecting a return of the aircraft type until the end of this year, and with fleet planning for early 2020 underway, it may not be able to operate direct from Germany to, for example, Dubai World Central and Abu Dhabi Int'l in the United Arab Emirates, or Sal Amilcar Cabral Int'l or Boa Vista Rabil Int'l in Cape Verde.
Real clarity will not come until the results of official investigations and US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification flights are available in September. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg told analysts on July 24 that he was confident the MAX would be back in service in October after the test flights.
However, the following day the FAA distanced itself from Muilenburg's comments, saying that regulators did not have a timeline for vetting safety upgrades, Reuters reported.
Lackmann stressed that for...
