Boeing 737 Max certification flight could come within 'a few weeks': FAA

Seeing “certification will come in the next few months” every couple months since the accidents doesn’t really inspire confidence. Sounds like rushed political efforts instead of truly concerted engineering to solve those issues in due time.

I’m never stepping into one of these planes.

Just in time for all air travel to cease!

(Airlines have grounded huge numbers of aircraft already anyway -- the last thing any of them care about now is having more planes)

I'd like to know what plane I'm boarding when buying plane tickets; There is no way I'm flying in a 737-800Max.

However I don't think that online services are sharing the plane model. Shouldn't I have a right to know which plane I'm flying before buying?

When it finally returns to service I am sure it will have a long, successful life - as a cargo plane.

Hopefully they added emptying the trash out of the fuel tanks in the pre-flight checklist...

They're down from saying 'a few months' every few months. I guess this means a few rounds of saying 'in a few weeks' every few weeks, which puts it back into service around August?

Regardless of how it goes i certainly wouldn’t get on one if they are cleared to fly again

Assuming it's true, I wonder a) how much money Boeing "contributed" to the process, and b) whether other aviation safety boards will pay attention to the FAA's safety claims.