Gallery: MAX Flies Again In American Demonstration Flight

American will relaunch MAX revenue services on Dec. 29, 2020, with daily flights between its Miami hub and New York LaGuardia.

Captain John Deleeuw speaks in the Tulsa hangar.

The cockpit of a MAX in the Tulsa MRO hangar with a maintenance engineer.

Captain John DeLeeuw, who heads up flight safety at American, briefed media on the flight from the Dallas-Fort Worth charter pad to the Tulsa maintenance facility. Captain Pete Gamble and first officer John Konstanzer flew the plane on both flights. “Our goal was the return the aircraft safely not just for American Airlines, but for the whole industry. It is a model for success for the future about how to work together as a team; we didn’t disagree, we just worked together as a team,” he said.

There were about 90 people on the DFW-Tulsa flights including newspaper, TV news network, wire service and trade journalists.

AA has 24 MAXs and another 76 on order.

All 24 of the carrier’s MAXs are kept at American’s Tulsa maintenance facility until they return to service.

All MAXs are powered by CFM LEAP-1B engines.

A selfie in seat 9F.

Flying out of Tulsa from seat 9A.

AA's MAXs are equipped in a three-class configuration-first/main cabin extra/economy with extra-large overhead bins.

The flight attendants were Pamela Quirin, Barrington Johnson, Thomas Houdek and Cesar Martinez.

View from window 9A during the flight back to Dallas-Fort Worth.

A MAX in the Tulsa hangar.