Return to service: 90-hour solution to Boeing 737 MAX simulator fault?

Spicejet is the biggest customer in India for Boeing 737 MAX planes. It has 11 of these planes in its fleet and 144 pilots to fly them

It takes only two hours —roughly the time it takes for a plane to fly from Delhi to Mumbai — for a pair of pilots to complete their training on the 737 MAX simulator at Boeing’s centre in Noida, the only one of its kind in India. Going by this estimate, all the 90 Spicejet pilots who the civil aviation regulator barred from flying the 737 MAX can be retrained in 90 hours.

“Retraining a couple of pilots will take two hours,” a Spicejet spokesperson told Business Standard.

The budget carrier is the biggest customer in India for Boeing 737