{"id":385336,"date":"2020-11-21T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385336"},"modified":"2020-11-21T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T03:37:20","slug":"large-boeing-737-max-customers-signal-caution-on-orders-amid-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/large-boeing-737-max-customers-signal-caution-on-orders-amid-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Boeing 737 MAX customers signal caution on orders amid Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN\/CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; A day after Boeing Co received approval for its 737 MAX to fly again following a 20-month grounding, its two largest U.S. and European customers signaled caution on their order books as they monitor demand in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. based Southwest Airlines , Boeing&#8217;s largest customer worldwide, said this week it would just take new MAX jets to replace jets it&#8217;s retiring rather than grow its fleet, and on Thursday raised the prospect of scaling back its fleet due to the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If demand is going to be persistently depressed, we can retire and not need to take airplanes as replacements,&#8221; Southwest Chief Executive Gary Kelly told journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN\/CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; A day after Boeing Co received approval for its 737 MAX to fly again following a 20-month grounding, its two largest U.S. and European customers signaled caution on their order books as they monitor demand in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. based Southwest Airlines , Boeing&#8217;s largest customer worldwide, said this week it would just take new MAX jets to replace jets it&#8217;s retiring rather than grow its fleet, and on Thursday raised the prospect of scaling back its fleet due to the pandemic. &#8220;If demand is going to be persistently depressed, we can retire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385336","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}