Boeing wants to deliver new Max jets next month

Boeing, facing a shortage of storage space as undelivered 737 Max jets remain parked near one of its manufacturing plants, hopes to start delivering new planes to airlines before Dec 31, even if regulators haven't approved pilot training for the plane's updated flight control system by then.

The planes wouldn't be used in commercial service, but could be readied by airlines pending final approval by the US Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA.

"It's becoming a logistics problem," Robert Mann, president of R.W. Mann & Co, an aviation consulting firm in Port Washington, New York, told China Daily. "The logistics of reintroducing the aircraft to service are becoming the long lead-time item, replacing recertification. Operators can get ferry permits to move the planes before all pilot training is completed. It then becomes a question of servicing aircraft that have been stored for eight or nine months."