American Airlines has announced that it will keep Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft off its schedules until next March, following a similar move by Southwest Airlines.

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The company previously said it would resume the flights by January, cancelling around 140 flights each day in the meantime, however it now expects to return the planes to service by March 5, nearly one year after the deadly Ethiopian Airlines accident which killed 157 people and led to the worldwide grounding of the 737 MAX.In a similar decision announced earlier on Friday, Southwest Airlines said it would keep the jets grounded until March 6. 

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