Boeing says 737 Max name on the new Ryanair plane

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A Boeing 737 Max to be delivered to Ryanair changed the name of the model on the nose of the plane, he emerged.

The photos shared on Twitter show a Ryanair-style aircraft outside the Boeing manufacturing base, the name 737 Max being replaced by 737-8200.

This fueled speculation that Max, in trouble, would be renamed after two fatal accidents led to a global strand.

Boeing and Ryanair have not commented yet.

No Max plane has flown since March after problems with its software were linked to accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which left 346 dead.

Ryanair has ordered 135 controversial Boeing models, with the top five to be delivered this fall.

Before-after images of one of Ryanair's planes were posted on the Woodys Aeroimages Twitter account, which traces Boeing's production. The images show the Ryanair plane, a larger version of the Max 8, at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington State.

The tweets claimed that the images showed that the name of the original model had been dropped.

Boeing itself has not ruled out changing the name of the 737 Max in the future, while others have already begun to refer to it under another name.

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At the Paris Air Show last month, the group International Airlines, owner of British Airways, announced its intention to buy 200 Max devices at a lower price, calling them "B737 aircraft".

Boeing has not yet convinced regulators that its software updates are sufficient to ensure Max's security.

And last month, the US Federal Aviation Administration, which must re-approve jet aircraft, discovered a new flaw that Boeing feels needs to be corrected until at least September.

On Sunday, American Airlines announced that it was extending for the fourth time about 115 canceled daily flights. Cancellations will continue until early November due to the current grounding of the 737 Max.

"American Airlines remains confident that the imminent software updates of the Boeing 737 MAX, as well as the new training elements developed by Boeing in coordination with our union partners, will allow recertification of the aircraft this year.