SEOUL: A second Boeing jet meant to be used by a Chinese language airline was heading again to the US on Monday (Apr 21), flight monitoring knowledge confirmed, in what seemed to be one other sufferer of the tit-for-tat bilateral tariffs launched by President Donald Trump in his international commerce offensive.
The 737 MAX 8 landed in the US territory of Guam on Monday, after leaving Boeing’s Zhoushan completion heart close to Shanghai, knowledge from flight monitoring web site AirNav Radar confirmed.
Guam is without doubt one of the stops such flights make on the 8,000km journey throughout the Pacific between Boeing’s US manufacturing hub in Seattle and the Zhoushan completion centre, the place planes are ferried by Boeing for ultimate work and supply to a Chinese language service.
On Sunday a 737 MAX painted with the livery for China’s Xiamen Airways made the return journey from Zhoushan and landed at Seattle’s Boeing Subject.
A spokesperson for Xiamen Airways on Monday confirmed that two planes marked for the service had gone to the US, however declined to supply a purpose.
It isn’t clear which get together made the choice for the 2 plane to return to the US.
Boeing might discover a alternative purchaser in Malaysia Airways, nonetheless, which has mentioned it was speaking to the producer about buying jets that will turn out to be accessible ought to Chinese language airways cease taking deliveries.
Trump this month raised baseline tariffs on Chinese imports to 145 per cent. In retaliation, China has imposed a 125 per cent tariff on US items. A Chinese language airline taking supply of a Boeing jet might be crippled by the tariffs, given {that a} new 737 MAX has a market worth of round US$55 million, based on IBA, an aviation consultancy.
The aircraft flew from Seattle to Zhoushan slightly below a month in the past.
Boeing didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
