{"id":311421,"date":"2020-01-21T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T06:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=311421"},"modified":"2020-01-21T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T06:29:20","slug":"damaged-max-brand-should-be-dropped-says-boeing-customer-air-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/damaged-max-brand-should-be-dropped-says-boeing-customer-air-lease\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Damaged\u2019 MAX brand should be dropped, says Boeing customer Air Lease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of major aircraft leasing firm Air Lease, which has 150 of Boeing\u2019s grounded 737 MAX jet on order, on Monday called on the U.S. manufacturer to drop the \u201cdamaged\u201d MAX brand to avoid it undermining the plane\u2019s value. The comments by Steven Udvar-Hazy, one of the founders of the airplane leasing industry which finances around half of the world\u2019s passenger fleet, echoes a call by U.S. President Donald Trump in April last year to \u201crebrand\u201d its 737 MAX jetliner.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing said last June it had no plans to change the name of the jet. \u201cWe\u2019ve asked Boeing to get rid of that word MAX,\u201d Udvar-Hazy told the Airline Economics aviation finance conference in Dublin. \u201cI think that word MAX should go down in the history books as a bad name for an aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of major aircraft leasing firm Air Lease, which has 150 of Boeing\u2019s grounded 737 MAX jet on order, on Monday called on the U.S. manufacturer to drop the \u201cdamaged\u201d MAX brand to avoid it undermining the plane\u2019s value. The comments by Steven Udvar-Hazy, one of the founders of the airplane leasing industry which finances around half of the world\u2019s passenger fleet, echoes a call by U.S. President Donald Trump in April last year to \u201crebrand\u201d its 737 MAX jetliner. Boeing said last June it had no plans to change the name of the jet. \u201cWe\u2019ve asked Boeing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}