By Marcelo Rochabrun SAO PAULO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Boeing Co
By Marcelo Rochabrun
SAO PAULO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s 737 MAX aircraft on Wednesday quietly restarted commercial flights in Brazil, the primary nation on the earth to take action, 20 months after the plane was grounded worldwide by regulators following two lethal crashes that killed tons of.
The flights are being operated by Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes GOLL4.SA, Brazil’s largest airways and one among Boeing’s BA.N biggest clients.
The primary flight befell between the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre, in response to information from FlightRadar24.
On Wednesday, the flights restarted with little fanfare. Gol declined to supply superior info on the routes and flights on which it could use the MAX and likewise didn’t publish an announcement on its homepage to tell purchasers that the MAX Is flying once more.
A Gol spokesman declined to touch upon how the inaugural flight went.
The flights are a key milestone for Boeing as nicely, which had been making an attempt to get the planes again in service a lot earlier, lacking its preliminary goal of late 2019. The MAX is its newest model of its bestselling 737 household of narrow-body jets.
Boeing additionally declined to touch upon Gol’s inaugural flight.
The plane was greenlit in late November by Brazil’s civil aviation regulator ANAC in November, following the same choice by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
American Airways AAL.O is predicted to be the subsequent operator to restart flights with the MAX on Dec. 29.
(Reporting by Marcelo Rochabrun Enhancing by Peter Graff and Aurora Ellis)
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