Cayman Airways set to resume B737 MAX operations

Cayman Airways (KX, Grand Cayman Island) will shortly resume B737 MAX operations after the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands permitted the type’s return to commercial service subject to “close oversight” and modifications in line with earlier FAA, EASA, and UK CAA decisions. The regulator said it would work closely with the carrier, the only operator of the B737 MAX in the self-governing British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea, about the type’s re-induction into service. It said it would undertake a “full review” of the airline’s return to service plans, including new training requirements and aircraft modifications. Given that, Cayman Airways said it expects to return its two B737-8s to service during the second half of February 2021 once all requirements have been met. The airline’s MAX are dry-leased from Air Lease Corporation, including one delivered in early March 2019 and not inducted into active service prior to the type’s global grounding in the middle of that month. It is also awaiting the delivery of a third unit of the type, also coming from the order book of Air Lease Corporation and tentatively due in November 2021, the ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows. Other than the two B737-8s, Cayman Airways also operates two B737-300s.