Boeing 737 MAX lands in China, ending import freeze on order backlog
The first Boeing 737 MAX jet delivered to a Chinese airline since March 2019 landed in China on Saturday, ending an almost five-year import freeze on the planemaker’s most profitable jets and heralding the potential delivery of a backlog of dozens of finished MAXs to China.
The 737 MAX 8 left Seattle Boeing field in Washington state on Wednesday after being handed over to China Southern Airlines , stopping in Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands before its final leg to Guangzhou in southern China, tracking data from FlightRadar24 shows.
