Southwest delays return of Its Boeing 737 MAX jets to February

Southwest Airlines said Thursday it was postponing the return of Boeing's 737 MAX jets to its flight schedule until Feb 8, the latest delay for the plane. The airline had previously planned to keep the jet off its flight schedule through Jan 5. United Airlines and American Airlines have canceled flights involving the 737 MAX until January. "With the timing of the MAX's return-to-service still uncertain, we are extending the MAX-related flight schedule adjustments through Feb 8," Southwest said. "The revision will proactively remove roughly 175 weekday flights from our schedule out of our total peak-day schedule of more than 4,000 daily flights." Earlier this week, Southwest's pilots union forecast that the grounded Boeing 737 MAX airplane would return to the skies around February. <br/>