Aeroflot likely to receive Boeing 737 Max planes in 2020

MOSCOW, Aug 30 (PRIME) -- Delivery of Boeing 737 Max planes to Russian national flagship carrier Aeroflot Group is likely to be delayed until 2020, Aeroflot said in a presentation on Friday.

“Delivery of 3 737 Max are likely to be delayed to 2020,” Aeroflot said in the presentation.

The Federal Air Transport Agency banned flights of Boeing 737 Max aircraft in Russia’s airspace until further notice after a crash of Ethiopian Airlines’ plane of the type that killed 157 people in March. Another aircraft of the same model of Indonesia’s Lion Air crashed in October 2018.

Aeroflot’s low-cost subsidiary is one of buyers of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. In March 2019, Aeroflot CEO Vitaly Savelyev said that deliveries of the planes to Pobeda will not start earlier than in November.

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