Sources within the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, and representatives of the pilots' union in the US tell the Wall Street Journal that Boeing's 737 Max plane, which was involved in the accident, will not leave the ground until January 2020 at the earliest.

While working to fix the problems that caused two fatal crashes earlier this year, Boeing executives, FAA engineers and aviation authorities in other parts of the world have continually found new errors that need to be addressed.

American Airlines said on Sunday it had canceled scheduled flights on the aircraft through November 2, 2019, Reuters reports. That's two months later than the airline's previous announcement.

”"American Airlines is confident that upcoming software updates to the Boeing 737 Max, along with the new training that Boeing is developing in coordination with our union partners, will lead to the aircraft being recertified this year," the airline said in a statement on Sunday.

On an annual basis, American Airlines expects the problems to cost around $350 million, equivalent to 3.3 billion kronor.

When American Airlines initially canceled flights with the accident model, executives at the company said they were "very confident" the plane would be in the air before the summer was over, according to the Wall Street Journal.

American Airlines has 24 Boeing 737 Max planes in its fleet, out of a total of 100 planes of that model on order.

Boeing has said it expects a cost of around $1 billion for production-related effects of the crisis, in addition to the so far incalculable claims for damages and compensation made by survivors, airlines and shareholders.

Source: di.se