{"id":384934,"date":"2020-11-19T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T05:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384934"},"modified":"2020-11-19T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T05:32:24","slug":"boeings-737-max-is-coming-back-is-the-world-ready-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeings-737-max-is-coming-back-is-the-world-ready-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s 737 Max is coming back. Is the world ready for it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to finally approve the Max to resume commercial flights on Wednesday, about 20 months after a pair of fatal crashes forced regulators around the globe to ground the once top-selling jet. European regulators are expected to follow suit in coming weeks. This is a major milestone for Boeing and a turning point for a company that somehow repeatedly managed to make an already devastating crisis worse for itself \u2014 remember the overly ambitious timelines for the Max\u2019s return? Financially, securing the FAA\u2019s blessing will allow the company to finally make money off the roughly 450 Max jets it has built but not yet delivered because of the grounding order. These days, though, getting regulators\u2019 approval is only half the battle for Boeing. <\/p>\n<p>The company is also contending with a global pandemic that\u2019s made airlines more prone to cut back their orders than to take new planes. Nearly a quarter of the 450 Max jets in storage are \u201cwhite tails&#8221; \u2014 planes whose original buyers have backed out, so their tails are unmarked by airline logos \u2014 Bloomberg News reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to finally approve the Max to resume commercial flights on Wednesday, about 20 months after a pair of fatal crashes forced regulators around the globe to ground the once top-selling jet. European regulators are expected to follow suit in coming weeks. This is a major milestone for Boeing and a turning point for a company that somehow repeatedly managed to make an already devastating crisis worse for itself \u2014 remember the overly ambitious timelines for the Max\u2019s return? Financially, securing the FAA\u2019s blessing will allow the company to finally make money off the roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384934","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}