Boeing delivered 89 737 Max since December,
airlines place them in storage
By Jon Hemmerdinger17 April 2021
Boeing
has delivered almost 90 737 Max since US regulators lifted the type’s grounding
last November, though airlines have placed those jet in storage, according to
Cirium fleets data.
Boeing
last week disclosed it had recommended that customers remove an undisclosed
number of Max from service due to electrical concerns.
The
company declines to specify how many jets are affected, but one airline said
the issue only involves recently delivered jets.
Source:
Alaska Airlines
Still,
the pace at which Boeing has offloaded its once 450-strong inventory of 737 Max
puts the company on track reach its goal of delivering half those jets by year
end.
Boeing
had continued manufacturing 737 Max amid much of the grounding, accumulating
about 450 undelivered jets by late last year.
In
October 2020, the Chicago-based airframer’s executives said the company aimed
to deliver about half those 450 aircraft before the end of 2021, and the
“majority” of the balance in 2022.
The US
Federal Aviation Administration lifted the grounding in November 2020.
Regulators in Canada, Europe, Latin America and elsewhere followed.
Boeing
resumed 737 Max deliveries in December, handing over 27 of the jets that month.
It has delivered another 62 since the start of 2021, bringing to 89 the number
of deliveries since the FAA cleared the jet.
Some of
those aircraft might have rolled off Boeing’s production lines in recent
months. But more than 80 completed first flight amid the grounding, making them
part of the 450-strong inventory.
US
carriers American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United
Airlines have received the vast majority of recent Max deliveries – 67 jets,
according to Cirium.
Boeing has also, since
late last year, delivered Max to airlines in Canada, Latin America and Europe,
data shows.
Boeing’s 737 Max
deliveries since December 2020 |
|
Carrier |
Number of aircraft |
Alaska
Airlines |
4 |
American
Airlines |
17 |
AMK
Aircraft Ltd |
1 |
Belavia |
1 |
Blue
Air |
1 |
Cayman
Airways |
1 |
Copa
Airlines |
7 |
GOL |
1 |
Neos |
2 |
Southwest
Airlines |
30 |
Sunwing
Airlines |
2 |
TUI UK |
4 |
Unannounced
non-commercial customer |
1 |
United
Airlines |
16 |
WestJet |
1 |
Total
deliveries |
89 |
Source: Cirium fleets data |
Despite
the pace of deliveries, the Max’s return lost momentum in recent weeks after
Boeing recommended airlines remove some jets from service due an electric
issue.
Boeing
has disclosed few details about the issue, other than to say it issued service
bulletins focused “on ensuring a sufficient ground path in the flight deck of
affected airplanes”.
The FAA
has described the issue as involving the jet’s “back-up power control unit”.
American Airlines
said the issue involves “recently delivered” Max.
All the 89
Max that Boeing delivered since December are in storage with airline customers,
Cirium shows.
Source:
Boeing
Boeing’s
combined stockpile of undelivered aircraft now stands at 461, including 357 737
Max, 84 787s, ten 767-based KC-46 military tankers, two 747-8s and eight 777s,
according to Cirium.
Those
aircraft have completed their first flights but have not been delivered, making
them what Cirium head of global consultancy Rob Morris calls “undelivered
inventory”.
Boeing
has been sitting on a large inventory of 787s following a decision to halt
deliveries of that type after October last year. The move stemmed from a
skin-flatness issue at the aft of the jets’ fuselage, where fuselage sections
join, Boeing said.
The company resumed 787
deliveries in March, handing two of the jets to United.
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