Boeing 737 MAX order still in Ethiopian Airlines’ books: Official

Mumbai: Ethiopian Airlines is yet to take a decision on scrapping its Boeing 737 MAX order, even as regulators around the world have grounded the aircraft following two fatal crashes, the latest of which involved a plane operated by the airline, a top official of the company told Mint.

“The Boeing 737 MAX orders are still in our book as we haven’t made a decision to scrap the order yet,” said Tadesse Tilahun, Ethiopian Airlines’s regional director for India subcontinent.

However, if we do scrap the order, we will replace it with other planes, including wide bodies, so that our capacity expansion plans are not affected, Tilahun said.