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books are great presents MAX INVENTORY CLEAR OUT

COULD TAKE YEARS
PPL, a much-loved
Once suppliers restart
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LSA With the aerospace fuselages that aero structures six months until the first MAX ramp. We’ve got to get those
supplier Spirit AeroSystems has
delivered,” Smith said.
delivery of a new-built aircraft,
manufacturing sector expecting
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¥ i s Boeing to restart 737 MAX parked in Wichita. Michaels said. supply chain and then ultimate-
“We’ve got our factory, our
CEO and president David
With Boeing’s reversal and
• covers ALL the basics production as early as next proposal that MAX pilots Calhoun and CFO Greg Smith ly customers’ ability to take the
month or April, one widely
• has BRILLIANT diagrams followed industry consultant should undergo simulator have cautioned stakeholders airplanes. And then, of course,
that they will build production
training, the requirement - if
we’ve got the added element in
said it will take up to two
• keeps explanations SIMPLE years to clear out the stored mandated by the FAA or other “slowly,” as Boeing’s empty that delivery now with the FAA
production system resets from
aviation regulators - will add
being involved in every delivery
inventory of narrowbody
two-to-five months alone to
of every MAX airplane that
its first position.
aircraft and fuselages. the push-out time line. “We had a very orderly we’ve assumed will continue.”
Kevin Michaels, MD of There are only 36 known shutdown of the line,” Smith Michaels said with all of that
AeroDynamic Advisory has said MAX simulators operating said “When you look at those factored in, it means the MAX
that it will take 18-24 months worldwide, although major three lines, they’re empty.” ramp up will be gradual, with
to push out the roughly 400 provider CAE continues to build Boeing has a lot to co-ordi- deliveries likely starting in the
undelivered MAXs stockpiled by
FLIGHT Boeing, in addition to the 387 so-called white tail sims for nate as it restarts the line, the fourth quarter, which begins in
sale.
October. Q
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