DUBLIN – Ryanair on Monday mentioned that Boeing had warned it of attainable delays to 21 737 MAX plane due for supply earlier than the tip of the yr and mentioned it was additionally nervous concerning the certification of the brand new MAX 10 plane.
Boeing stays a “main space of concern” for Ryanair, one of many U.S. aerospace large’s main prospects, Group Chief Government Michael O’Leary instructed buyers on a name following the discharge of quarterly outcomes.
Boeing didn't instantly reply to an emailed request for remark.
O’Leary mentioned he was assured that Boeing would ship all 50 737 MAX plane due by subsequent summer season however he was involved a couple of attainable repeat of delays this yr that compelled it to take deliveries throughout its busy summer season season.
“Within the final two weeks, we’re getting letters out of Boeing telling us there may be issues with 21 plane this aspect of Christmas,” O’Leary instructed buyers on a convention name.
A delay could be “inexplicable and unacceptable,” he added.
O’Leary mentioned that he had been assured that Ryanair deliveries would take precedence this winter.
“Administration in Seattle… must get their finger out,” O’Leary mentioned, repeating a name for a change in administration at Boeing’s Seattle operations.
O’Leary mentioned he was nonetheless desirous about a big order for the MAX 10 – the most important member of its best-selling single-aisle airplane household – however that Boeing had not provided enticing sufficient pricing but.
“We'd hope finally they'll get there,” he mentioned.
Ryanair final yr walked away from negotiations with Boeing for 200 of the MAX 10. The MAX 10 programme, which has not but been licensed, obtained a lift at Britain’s Farnborough Airshow final week with Delta Air Traces ordering 100 and Qatar Airways 25.
O’Leary mentioned he was nervous about delays to the certification and the chance that the cockpit must be redesigned.
Boeing faces a December deadline to win approval for the 737 MAX 10, in any other case it should meet new cockpit alerting necessities beneath a 2020 legislation, except waived by Congress.
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