Boeing could deliver new jet six months early

The Boeing Co. could deliver its newest jetliner, the 737 MAX, as much as six months early, reports the Wall Street Journal.

As WSJ’s Jon Ostrower notes, that is a rare feat in the aerospace industry nowadays.

The 737 MAX first flew last Friday.

The fist delivery — to Southwest Airlines — is scheduled for the third quarter of 2017, but it could be as much as half a year earlier, the Journal reports.

It is the fourth generation of Boeing’s popular single-aisle airplane, which was developed in the mid-1960s and is the best-selling jetliner of all time.

Airbus quietly delivered the first A320neo in late January to launch customer Lufthansa.

Boeing is considering a stretched 737 MAX with new wings and with room for as many as 245 passengers, Ostrower writes.

Dan Catchpole: 425-339-3454; dcatchpole@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @dcatchpole.

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