By David Shepardson
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Federal Aviation Administrator Steve Dickson referred to as senior U.S. airline officers on Friday and advised them the company might approve the grounded Boeing 737 MAX’s return to service earlier than mid-year – a sooner timeframe than the planemaker instructed this week, folks briefed on the calls mentioned.
Dickson’s calls got here because the FAA issued an announcement on Friday voicing progress on the 737 MAX, in a shifting tone that helped push the planemaker’s shares greater whilst issues grew that it could reduce manufacturing of one other plane, the 787 Dreamliner.
“Whereas the FAA continues to comply with a radical, deliberate course of, the company is happy with Boeing’s progress in current weeks towards reaching key milestones,” the company mentioned in an announcement.
An individual briefed on one in all Dickson’s calls with the airways mentioned he advised officers the Boeing mid-year timeline is “very conservative.”
The FAA and…