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原文:Pressure on carriers to cut costs made the fuel-efficient max Boeing’s fastest-selling model ever. Around 5,000 have been ordered since its launch in 2011 and nearly 390 delivered. Southwest, an American carrier with 34 such planes, has canceled thousands of flights. In July it revealed a $175m hit to pretax profits in the second quarter. American Airlines, which has scrapped 115 or so flights a day, reckons that full-year profits will be $350m lower as a result. An airline- data firm, estimates that, globally, the grounding will cost airlines $4bn in sales by November. Many airline bosses would agree with Michael O’Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, Europe’s second-biggest carrier with 135 maxes on order, who has told Boeing to “get their together”. Some airlines have put the plane back in their schedules for November, on the assumption that once Boeing submits fixes to the faulty software in September, America’s Federal Aviation Administration and its counterparts in other countries will allow a return to service before the end of the year. Even if regulators approved the new software, it would take six to eight weeks to get planes out of storage and in the air.
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航空公司要求削减成本的压力使节油型波音(max Boeing)成为了有史以来销售最快的机型。自2011年推出以来,已经订购了约5,000架,交付了近390架。美国西南航空公司拥有34架这种飞机,已经取消了数千次航班。今年7月,该公司宣布第二季度税前利润减少了1.75亿美元。每天取消大约115趟航班的美国航空公司(American Airlines)估计,其全年利润将因此减少3.5亿美元。一家航空数据公司表明,到11月,在全球范围内,停飞将导致收入减少40亿美元。许多航空公司的老板同意瑞安航空(Ryanair)的首席之心管迈克尔·奥利里(Michael O'Leary)的要求,要求波音聚集在一起。瑞安航空是欧洲第二大的航空公司,订单量达到135架。假设一旦波音公司在九月递交了修复错误软件的修复程序之后,美国联邦航空管理局及其在其他国家的同行将允许在今年年底恢复服务。这看起来很乐观。即使监管机构批准了新软件,也要花6-8周的时间才能使飞机脱离存储和空中状态。