Indonesia carrier will still take Boeing 737 Max jets after Lion Air crash

Garuda will keep taking deliveries of Boeing’s 737 Max jet, giving the new aircraft a vote of confidence while local rival Lion Air threatens to cancel its US$22b order after suffering a plane crash in October. “Our Max jet has been performing well, we have no significant issue with it,” Garuda president director I Gusti Ngurah Askhara Danadiputra said Thursday. The airline has 4 Max aircraft in its fleet and is due to take 49 more through 2030. While Garuda isn’t one of the biggest customers of Boeing’s newest model of the 737, its support is coming at a time when questions surrounding the crash of a 2-month-old Max have hovered over Boeing and weighed on its shares. US pilot unions have also questioned why flight crews weren’t alerted to the plane’s anti-stall software. <br/>