Airlines rethink 737 Max orders after crashes

By Bella Genga, Layan Odeh, and Pádraig Hoare

Norwegian Air International, which flies Boeing’s 737 Max to the US east coast from Irish airports, has no plans to abandon orders of the aircraft, even as the Ethiopian Airlines crash looks increasingly likely to hit the planemaker’s $55bn (€49bn) global order book. VietJet Aviation, which doubled its order to 200 of the aircraft, priced at about $25bn, only last month, said it will decide on its future plans once the cause of the tragedy has been found, while Kenya Airways could switch to Airbus rival, A320.