TUI Group no longer hopes to take delivery of any B737-8s before the end of September 2020, when the travel group's fiscal year ends, Chief Executive Fritz Joussen told the AFP news agency.

The entire group currently estimates its losses resulting from the grounding of the B737 MAX at EUR220-245 million euros (USD239-267 million). Joussen said TUI would seek compensation from Boeing (BOE, Washington National).

According to the ch-aviation fleets module, the group currently has fifteen B737 MAX 8s grounded, of which six were operated by TUI Airways (BY, London Luton), four by TUI fly (Belgium) (TB, Brussels National), three by TUI fly (Netherlands) (OR, Amsterdam Schiphol), and two by TUI fly Nordic (6B, Stockholm Arlanda). The German unit TUI fly (Germany) (X3, Hannover) was expecting deliveries of its first five aircraft in 2019.