American Airlines posted higher revenue and profit figures for the full year 2019 than one year earlier, as strong travel demand countered the fallout of the Boeing 737 Max crisis. That said, American’s executives now do not expect the aircraft will return to its fleet before “late summer, early fall” of 2020 – much later than its current prediction of June 3, 2020. “The Max is still an issue in 2020,” CE Doug Parker said Thursday. “When we say we expect it to be back, we have our June date, but we are going to need to reassess that sometime into late summer, early fall.” The airline says that despite the grounding of the company’s 24 Max aircraft, leading to cancellation of more than 10,000 flights in the final quarter of the year, it saw higher travel demand during the year, especially in its traditionally strong Latin American market. <br/>