Boeing Doesn’t Expect Max Jet to Be Cleared Until Summer

Boeing Doesn’t Expect Max Jet to Be Cleared Until Summer
A worker looks up underneath a Boeing 737 MAX jet in Renton, Wash., on Dec. 16, 2019. Elaine Thompson/AP
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Boeing said Jan. 21 that it doesn’t expect federal regulators to approve its changes to the grounded 737 Max until this summer, several months longer than the company was saying just a few weeks ago.

That timetable—the latest of several delays in the plane’s approval process—will create more headaches for airlines by pushing the Max’s return further into the peak summer travel season or possibly beyond it.