Wall Street Journal reporting, citing unnamed government and industry officials
flights not expected until early next year "nearly two months beyond previous expectations"
- Federal Aviation Administration won't finish work to lift its March 2019 grounding order until late October or early November
- agency to ask for public comments before finalizing software and hardware changes
- Regulators overseas could take days or weeks longer to concur in those decisions
- Completing pilot training and maintenance checks-and obtaining final FAA approval for those tasks for individual airlines-is expected to stretch well into December
Here is the WSJ link, (may be gated)