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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 ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a nationwide ground stop for Southwest Airlines flights that they issued Tuesday morning citing “technical issues.”. Around 10.30 am EST ...
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 outage was the first time since September 11, 2001, that the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop in the United States. [ 3 ] A preliminary investigation of the incident demonstrated to FAA investigators that a "damaged database file" may have caused the outage of the FAA's Notice to Air Missions ( NOTAM ) system, responsible for notifying ...
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.
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).
A Southwest Airlines ground operations crew member waits to guide an arriving jet into a gate, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.
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.