United Airlines resumes B737MAX-flights

On 11 February, United Airlines became the next airline to resume flights with the B737MAX. B737-9 N37523 (43461) had the honours and operated as UA1864 from Denver (CO) to Houston (TX).

The airline expects to operate up to 500 MAX-flights this month, which is set to increase to 2,000 next month as more of its B737MAXs are ready to return to service. United Airlines has, so far, taken delivery of 30 B737-9s. It has a further 155 MAXs on order; 55 B737-9s and 100 B737-10s.

United is now the second airline in the US to operate the MAX again. American Airlines was the first, with flights resuming in December last year. Next month, Southwest is due to resume operating their MAXs and Alaska Airlines is also planning to deploy its freshly delivered MAXs from next month onwards.

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