American Airlines' CEO Doug Parker told employees that politics are playing into federal officials' decision to allow the grounded Boeing 737 Max plane to fly again.
have also extended flight cancellations from the 737 Max longer than anticipated as the grounding continues.
Boeing has completed a software fix for the planes after investigators implicated an anti-stall program in both crashes. Regulators, including the Federal Aviation Administration, have not yet approved the software changes or the additional pilot training material Boeing has been developing. "There is an absolute software fix that's this close to being certified, but they've been saying that for a while," Doug Parker told employees in a town hall meeting last week, according to an audio recording reviewed by CNBC. "I think as much as anything now it may be politics as much as the true certification ... safety issue. I don't think the FAA wants to be alone in doing this.
The U.S. was the last major aviation market to ground the jets in March after the Ethiopian Airlines crash, a stark change for the agency that
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