As Boeing Co sets its sights on winning approval to fly its 737 MAX within weeks, following a six-month safety ban, engineers around the world are rolling out plans for one of the biggest logistical operations in civil aviation history.
Although regulators must still approve the jets for flight, Boeing and airline staff and executives say the world's largest planemaker is weeks into an elaborate blueprint for production, maintenance and delivery that one source said involves 1,500 engineers - as many as it takes to design a small new jet.
Boeing's fastest-selling jet was grounded in March after flight-control software was found to have played a role in two separate crashes that killed 346 people within five months.The ban sent shockwaves through aviation, cutting Boeing's profit and margins, with a cost to Boeing so far estimated at $US8 billion .
Preparations for a return to service are finely tuned to the company's present assumption that the 737 MAX will resume commercial flights in the October-December timeframe, Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg told Reuters in August. Boeing has told suppliers that it expects the plane to be flying in early November, a senior industry source said.Once regulators certify the MAX for flight, Boeing will have to mobilise hundreds of mechanics and pilots to bring the roughly 250 stored aircraft out of hibernation.Airlines estimate the process - which includes installing new software, changing fluids and cycling the engines - will take 100 to 150 hours per jet, and months in total for Boeing.
They won't be flying anywhere....until early next year!
Nope
Chinese airlines have ordered something like 500 of the 737 MAX. That all got holted when they were grounded due to two crashes. Relaunch the MAX understandably must be a massive priority for Boeing.
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