To survive the pandemic, Alaska Air prepares to shrink and shed thousands of jobs
“Things will likely not go back to pre-COVID levels in the next 12 months,” says the airline’s president.
Cash crunch from coronavirus crisis will force Alaska Air to shrink
Alaska CEO Brad Tilden said the airline industry faces “one of the greatest challenges in the history of commercial aviation” as he announced a first-quarter net loss of $232 million.
As coronavirus decimates demand for jets, Boeing may slash Washington state production and cut jobs
Boeing is the largest private employer in Washington, with about 72,000 employees there.
‘Breathtaking’ drop in air travel due to coronavirus has Alaska and Southwest preparing to cut flights
Alaska Airlines president Ben Minicucci said the company will reduce red-eye flying and accelerate the exit of markets it already planned to leave.
Boeing doubles projected cost of 737 Max grounding to $18.4 billion
In more bad news for Boeing, the company announced a further cut in the production rate of the 787 Dreamliner.
Boeing documents show employees discussing efforts to manipulate regulators scrutinizing the 737 Max
Employees successfully fought off moves over several years to require anything but minimal pilot training for the new airplane, the documents show.
Boeing’s 737 MAX crisis leaves it badly behind in ‘arms race’ for next decade’s jets
Ongoing investigations of the crashes have spotlighted the badly flawed design of the MAX’s flight control system and a largely self-certifying oversight regime that failed to catch the flaws.
Boeing will halt 737 MAX production in January
Nine months after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the 737 Max, Boeing finally pulled the plug on the jet’s production Monday. The company announced it’s temporarily halting the assembly lines in Renton, Wash., from January, with no timeline defined for a restart.
Shutdown likely at Boeing plant near Seattle as 737 MAX crisis extends
It’s likely Boeing will stop 737 MAX production this week and keep the assembly lines closed until the Federal Aviation Administration clears the jet to return to commercial service.
Ethiopian Airlines calls criticism of its pilots an effort to ‘divert public attention’ from Boeing 737 MAX flaws
A day after the president of an American pilots union called on Boeing to “stop blaming dead pilots,” controversy continued to reverberate around some U.S. claims that pilot error may have been a major factor in the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes.
Long before first 737 Max crash, Boeing knew a key warning light wasn’t working but told no one
Pilots for American Airlines and other carriers were falsely reassured last November about how the warning light operated.
Ethiopian pilots fought the 737 MAX flight controls almost from takeoff, preliminary report shows
From the flight’s first moments, a false sensor signal had activated the “stick shaker,” vibrating the control column as a stall warning, and giving the pilot alerts that their airspeed, altitude and pitch readings were unreliable.