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The grounding of the 737 Max 9 after a January 5 incident that blew a hole in the side of an Alaska Airlines plane earlier this month will cost the airline about $150 million, Alaska announced ...
With the Federal Aviation Administration grounding all Boeing 737 Max jets on Wednesday, American Airlines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines now must rejigger schedules to ensure they ...
In July, Southwest Airlines reprinted aircraft safety cards that were shared between the MAX and the rest of the Southwest 737-800 fleet. [114] An IBD/TIPP Poll surveying Americans in January 2020, found that among the 61% who are closely following news of the MAX, 56% would avoid flying on it once it has reentered service.
Southwest Airlines is resuming flights after temporarily grounding its entire network Tuesday. Cancellations seem to be at a minimum, but more than 1,700 flights, around 40% of the airline's ...
By March 13, the FAA followed behind 51 concerned regulators in deciding to ground the aircraft. [4] All 387 aircraft delivered to airlines were grounded by March 18. In 2016, the FAA approved Boeing's request to remove references to a new Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) from the flight manual. In November 2018, after the ...
Globally, Official Airline Guide (OAG) estimates that the grounding will cost airlines $4 billion of sales by November. [14] By July 2019, United Airlines purchased 19 used 737-700s to fill in for MAX aircraft, to be delivered in December 2019. [113] United had expected to receive 30 MAX aircraft by the end of 2019 and a further 28 in 2020. [114]
The grounding of the 737 MAX in March has wiped out more than 30,000 Southwest Airlines flights, causing over $100 million in lost wages for pilots, the union said.
The Boeing 737 MAX airliner, which began service in 2017, was involved in two fatal accidents, Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019, that resulted from a malfunction of the aircraft's new flight stabilizing software, [1] the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).