Aviation Week's Window Seat Podcast
Jun 4, 2026 · 16 min · 9 segments
Editors recap the CAPA Airline Leader Summit, covering air traffic modernization debates, rising costs, FAA head Bryan Bedford's certification news, LCC strategy and more.
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Lori RansonGuest
Christine BoyntonHostWhat I'm going to do actually is just start with a little bit of a news flash that, uh, that none of us expected, but it was quite an interesting one.
The, uh, one of the key speakers here was the FAA administrator, Brian Bedford, and, um, we suddenly got a surprise, didn't we, in something he said, Christine?
Um, and it actually came in the last, I would say, 30 seconds or so of his panel.
Now, he does believe that the Boeing 737 Max will be certified by the end of the year, the Max 7 first, followed by the 10, but then he said hopefully the 777 early next year.
Uh, and, and now that was a, a, a bit surprising because Boeing had previously suggested things were on track for an amended type certificate by the end of the year.
Um, and though it's, it's unclear as of now what's behind that stretch, uh, CEO Kelly Ortberg did appear to hint towards that timeline in remarks at the Bernstein conference, specifically, um, around ETOPs, which he said was going to extend into next year.
So we have the story online with far more detail, but that was a bit of an unexpected announcement at the end of that presentation.
What I'm going to do actually is just start with a little bit of a news flash that, uh, that none of us expected, but it was quite an interesting one.
The, uh, one of the key speakers here was the FAA administrator, Brian Bedford, and, um, we suddenly got a surprise, didn't we, in something he said, Christine?
Um, and it actually came in the last, I would say, 30 seconds or so of his panel.
Now, he does believe that the Boeing 737 Max will be certified by the end of the year, the Max 7 first, followed by the 10, but then he said hopefully the 777 early next year.
Uh, and, and now that was a, a, a bit surprising because Boeing had previously suggested things were on track for an amended type certificate by the end of the year.
Um, and though it's, it's unclear as of now what's behind that stretch, uh, CEO Kelly Ortberg did appear to hint towards that timeline in remarks at the Bernstein conference, specifically, um, around ETOPs, which he said was going to extend into next year.
So we have the story online with far more detail, but that was a bit of an unexpected announcement at the end of that presentation.
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