Originally Posted by
UltraFan
I read it yesterday and still can't wrap my head around it. EASA has been saying for months that it would be doing its own assessment and then conduct its own test flights. Now, all of a sudden, they, or rather, he is saying they will lift the grounding before FAA. How is that possible!? FAA says they don't have a timeline but only safety in mind, but EASA gives a timeframe? They don't even know how the test flights will go and whether any anomalies will be discovered.
That's not how I read it.
Ky says that the
earliest the Max grounding could be lifted is January and that that's dependent on
decisions to be made that month following the December flight tests. As timeframes go, that's a pretty woolly one. He also states that, while there might be a couple of weeks divergence, there won't be any significant difference between EASA's and the FAA's return-to-service dates.