Following the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines flight of the new Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft earlier this week, several civil aviation authorities have ordered to ground the aircraft and all of its variations from landing/departing in its airports and ban entering the country’s airspace.
With major airlines complying with this and the list of countries grounding the Max 8 growing, we started to see an impact on business and general aviation operations in reduced parking areas.
Here is the list so far:
- Australia
- Austria
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- China
- Egypt
- European Union
- Fiji
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kuwait
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Oman
- Poland
- Turkey
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Vietnam
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Updated: United States
It seems the list is growing and further isolating the US, which is still allowing the jets to fly.
Update: The FAA has just prohibited the operation of Boeing Model 737-8 and 737-9 MAX airplanes by U.S. certificated operators.
More restrictions anticipated to be placed on business aviation operations at certain airports where parking will be restricted because of the grounded aircraft.
Update: After the FAA prohibition the ban became universal, the airplane is confirmed unsafe to fly, further investigation should clarify the airworthiness of the 737 Max, it seems the MCAS software update wont be sufficient to lift the ban. Re-certification could be required by some Civil Aviation Authorities (Europe in particular).