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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

CAL: No Max 8s unless safety standards are met

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News Desk
2357 days ago
20190314

Caribbean Air­lines has an­nounced that it will not ac­quire the Boe­ing 737 Max 8 air­craft if it is found that it does not meet re­quired safe­ty stan­dards.

The an­nounce­ment came via the fol­low­ing state­ment is­sued by the air­line on Thurs­day morn­ing.

"The air­line will not, and in fact can­not, in­tro­duce any air­craft in­to its fleet that does not meet the most strin­gent in­ter­na­tion­al and do­mes­tic reg­u­la­tions. If the Boe­ing 737 MAX-8 air­craft fails to meet any of the very strin­gent re­quire­ments, it will not, and in fact can­not, be added to the fleet," the air­line said.

Caribbean Air­lines main­tains that it has an "im­pec­ca­ble safe­ty record", which is says is due in no small part to the use of very re­li­able equip­ment, an ex­treme­ly well trained team, and "a first class main­te­nance and en­gi­neer­ing de­part­ment".

The air­line does not cur­rent­ly fly the Boe­ing 737 MAX-8 air­craft.

It says that its in­ter­na­tion­al avi­a­tion con­sul­tants, at­tor­neys, and man­age­ment are close­ly mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion, and will take all re­quired steps to con­tin­ue to safe­guard the air­line, its cus­tomers and staff.

"In the mean­time, Caribbean Air­lines is do­ing all that it rea­son­ably can, to ac­com­mo­date on its air­craft, those pas­sen­gers of oth­er air car­ri­ers who may be af­fect­ed by the ground­ing of the Boe­ing 737 MAX-8," the air­line said.


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