According to media reports, SpiceJet and Jet Airways are the only two private airlines in India that operate Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. SpiceJet has 12 such planes. Jet Airways' five such planes are already grounded due to the airline's financial issues. The Civil Aviation Authority of Viet...
The 737 MAX suffered a recurring failure in the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), causing two fatal crashes, Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, in which 346 people died. It was subsequently grounded worldwide from March 2019 to November 2020. The FAA garn...
A few hundred flights using the affected 737 MAX 9 planes have been canceled. Airlines won’t fly them again until the FAA has cleared them. Asthe FAA said on Tuesday: “The safety of the flying public, not speed, will determine the timeline for returning the Boeing 737 Max 9 to servic...
Boeing 737 Max aircraft have been grounded across the world since March this year after initial probes showed that a fault in the flight control system was possibly behind two separate fatal air crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in October and in March, respectively. The two crashes killed all ...
Boeing737 Max 9 jetliners are carrying passengers in the United States again for the first time since they were grounded after a panel blew out of the side of one of the planes. Alaska Airlines resumed a limited number of flights with its Max 9s on Friday. United aims to follow suit on...
The 737 Max fleet of roughly 400 planes has been grounded across the globe since mid-March after two crashes in less than five months that killed 346 people combined. The grounding has forced airlines to cancel thousands of flights, driven up costs and dented airlines' profits. ...
planemaker's best-selling aircraft struggles with an electrical problem that has re-grounded part of the fleet. Boeing said last month it was halting deliveries of the jet again due to the electrical problem. The planemaker started delivering the 737 MAX to airlin...
Southwest has 34 Boeing 737 Max 8 planes in its fleet and said it would "waive fare differences that might normally apply" for travelers who wish to "rebook their flight to another aircraft type," spokesman Dan Landson told CNBC. The planes represent a small number of S...
Boeing’s 737 Max jet has gotten another boost at the Dubai Airshow. This time it’s an order from Kazakhstan’s newly-launched budget carrier as the Chicago-based company works to try and win U.S. regulatory approval to get the airplane back in the sky
Boeing 737 Max planes have been grounded globally since March after two deadly crashes that killed 346 people. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Steve Dickson, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), said Wednesday that aviation regulators won't likely clear Boeing's troubled 737 Max...