By Conor Humphries
By Conor Humphries
DUBLIN, Jan 20 (Reuters) – The chairman of main plane leasing agency Air Lease AL.N, which has 150 of Boeing’s BA.N grounded 737 MAX jet on order, on Monday known as on the U.S. producer to drop the “broken” MAX model to keep away from it undermining the airplane’s worth.
The feedback by Steven Udvar-Hazy, one of many founders of the airplane leasing business which funds round half of the world’s passenger fleet, echoes a name by U.S. President Donald Trump in April final 12 months to “rebrand” its 737 MAX jetliner.
Boeing stated final June it had no plans to vary the identify of the jet.
“We have requested Boeing to eliminate that phrase MAX,” Udvar-Hazy informed the Airline Economics aviation finance convention in Dublin. “I feel that phrase MAX ought to go down within the historical past books as a nasty identify for an plane.”
“The MAX model is broken and there’s actually no cause for it,” he added.
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