Global Airlines Worry About Havoc Caused by a Boeing 737 Max Regulatory Rift

Scandinavian Airlines doesn't fly the Boeing 737 Max, nor does it plan to order it. But its CEO, Rickard Gustafson, said he still fears a scenario that could occur later this summer, because his carrier sends many of its passengers onto United Airlines connecting flights in Chicago, Newark, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. "Let's assume that the aircraft is approved in the U.S. and not approved in Europe," he said in an interview at the IATA Annual General Meeting, an annual conference of airline executives. "Well, we codeshare with United. What do you tell your customers? Do you say, 'you know, here in Europe you can't fly it, but if you fly us to the U.S. and connect with United, it is perfectly all right?'" It's a unique situation. There have been multiple crashes of the same aircraft type before, and regulators have grounded planes they viewed as unsafe. But they usually have done so in lockstep, so flights would stop and start ev