American Airlines executives 'confident' 737 MAX will be ungrounded by Aug. 19

American Airlines Group executives said Friday that they are "confident" that Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft will be ungrounded by Aug. 19. American decided earlier this month to remove its 24 MAX jets, which were grounded worldwide in March following two fatal crashes on other airlines, from its flying schedule through Aug. 19. Before making that decision, CE Doug Parker said he told regulators that he needed 95% certainty that passengers could actually fly on MAX tickets that the airline sells past that date.<br/>