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EI-BUD
Yes DaveReidUK, that's my opinion S20..
Besides any reentry into service will have to be on a phased basis airlines will struggle to take backlogs of planes at once... I certainly wouldn't be comfortable in any schedules planning department building a schedule for any sooner given the lack of substitute aircraft in the market...
Maybe I misread your post. Yes, I agree that airlines plan their schedules a year or more in advance, and planners can't afford to make overoptimistic assumptions about when the grounding will end.
But you said categorically that you don't expect to see the Max flying in airline service until Summer 2021, whereas I fully expect the aircraft to start operating for airlines within a few days of the grounding being lifted (on an ad-hoc basis, obviously), and I'll be amazed if that moment is still more than a year away.