Boeing does not anticipate any “meaningful delays” in its 737 MAX aircraft deliveries to India due to prevailing problems following the recent mid-flight cabin plug door blowout incident on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 plane in the United States (US), the American plane maker’s vice president for commercial marketing Darren Hulst said Friday at Wings India 2024 in Hyderabad. Hulst added that on its part, Boeing is going to focus on quality scrutiny of its aircraft and support the investigation that is underway in the US.
To be sure, no Indian carrier currently operates or even plans to operate the MAX 9 variant of the aircraft, which suffered the plug door blowout. Indian carriers—Akasa Air and the Air India group—have a large number of MAX 8 and MAX 10 aircraft on order, which are to be delivered over the next few years. In 2023, the Air India group ordered 190 MAX family planes. On Thursday, Akasa Air topped up its earlier order of 76 aircraft with another 150-plane order.
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