Rabat-Sana
The national carrier has suspended a deal to buy two more Boeing 737 MAX planes after it halted flights following a plane crash in Ethiopia, an airline source said.
Royal Air Maroc had planned to take delivery of two 737 Maxs in June, the source said, adding that two more planes of the same type in its fleet had been suspended pending the results of an investigation into the crash in March.
Southwest Airlines and Gol Linhas Aereas had suspended 13 Boeing 737 NGs after US regulators last week ordered urgent checks.
It is noteworthy that the flights of the best-selling aircraft of the American company for the manufacture of aircraft around the world and freezing the delivery of aircraft last March after two crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed 346 people in five months.