UPDATE 1-Saudi ban on Boeing MAX flights to continue for near future - minister

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Saudi Arabia has no immediate plans to allow Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to operate in the kingdom, its transport minister said on Monday, as state airline flyadeal potentially reconsiders an order for the jets. Boeing's top-selling MAX has been grounded globally since last month after two fatal crashes involving the same model in five months, the first in Indonesia in October and another on March 10 in Ethiopia. "There were no 737 MAX flying in the kingdom at the time and there aren’t plans for them to be back in the near future," minister Nabeel al-Amudi told reporters at an aviation conference in Riyadh.