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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 ...
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 ...
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U.S. labor unions representing pilots and flight attendants had different opinions on whether or not to ground the aircraft. Two flight attendant unions, AFA and the APFA, favored groundings, [93] while pilot unions such as the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, [94] APA, and ALPA, expressed confidence in continued operation of the aircraft ...
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 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).
The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) said on Monday it filed a lawsuit against Boeing Co alleging that the grounding of the planemaker's 737 MAX aircraft had caused over $100 million ...
Southwest Airlines temporarily paused all departures Tuesday in response to computer issue. Flights have since resumed but delays continue.