Brazil’s largest airline, Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, will not cancel its orders of Boeing Co’s 737 Max plane, the model which was involved in two fatal crashes, newspaper Valor Economico reported Gol’s chief executive as saying on Tuesday.
“We will not cancel our orders,” CEO Paulo Kakinoff said. “The 737 Max is probably the best airplane ever made.”
Gol is going through a significant fleet transformation and has bet heavily on the Boeing 737 Max, with over 100 planes scheduled to be delivered in the next few years.
The airline has so far received seven aircraft, which it grounded after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed in March, the second accident involving that plane model in a span of five months.
Kakinoff added that he thinks it is possible that the 737 Max planes will fly again by July. That decision is in the hands of regulators around the world.
Gol has flown Boeing planes exclusively since its founding and is the U.S. plane maker’s largest client in Latin America.