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Boeing has laid out its plan to fix the safety and quality problems that battered its reputation

Federal Aviation Administration chief Mike Whitaker said the plan is comprehensive and includes encouraging Boeing employees to speak up about safety...

31.05.2024 30

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Boeing reaches deadline for telling the FAA how it will fix safety and quality problems

The Federal Aviation Administration required the company to produce a turnaround plan after one of its jetliners suffered a blowout of a fuselage...

30.05.2024 30

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Over 6,000 flights delayed ahead of the busiest Memorial Day in decades

“Airports are going to be more packed than we have seen in 20 years,” AAA spokesperson Aixa Diaz said.

24.05.2024 40

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Memorial Day travel jams expected to be the worst in nearly 20 years

AAA predicts this will be the busiest start-of-summer weekend in nearly 20 years, with 43.8 million people expected to travel at least 50 miles from...

23.05.2024 50

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Boeing criminal charges: DOJ sees breach of settlement that staved off prosecution

In a letter, Glenn Leon, head of the DOJ criminal division's fraud section, said Boeing failed to make promised changes to detect and prevent...

15.05.2024 20

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Boeing violated a deal that allowed it to sidestep criminal prosecution. Now, charges could be back on the table

Boeing reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the Justice Department in January 2021 to avoid prosecution.

15.05.2024 20

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Congress passes $105 billion bill to ease air traffic controller shortage as planes keep nearly crashing on the tarmac

The funding bill aims to make it easier to hire air traffic controllers amid a shortage of 3,000.

30.04.2024 60

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Boeing’s financial woes continue as families of 737 Max crash victims push U.S. to prosecute the plane maker

About a dozen relatives of passengers who died in the second crash met with government officials for several hours Wednesday in Washington.

25.04.2024 20

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UAW’s next big Southern test after winning Tennessee union vote is Alabama

The UAW has accused the German carmaker of violating U.S. and German labor laws with aggressive anti-union tactics, which the company denies.

22.04.2024 50

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Congress hauls in Boeing whistleblower who claims 787 skin is so loose it could break apart

Back-to-back hearings Wednesday will examine allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer.

17.04.2024 50

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Frustrating flight cancellations, daylong waits prompt DOT to strike deal on airline consumer complaints

These issues are "a violation of passenger rights, and we are seeing far too many cases of that,” said DOT secretary Pete Buttigieg.

17.04.2024 10

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Boeing fights off fresh whistleblower allegations, while saying employee reports have ‘exploded … which is what we want’

Two Boeing engineering executives went into detail Monday to describe how panels are fitted together, particularly on the 787 Dreamliner.

16.04.2024 20

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Boeing promises to work with employees to correct quality lapses after FAA review finds aircraft maker failed 33 production aspects at one plant

The aircraft maker detailed its latest steps to correct lapses in quality in a memo to employees from Stan Deal, president of Boeing's commercial...

13.03.2024 30

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Boeing 737 Max’s rudder controls briefly failed last month, federal investigators say

Federal investigators said they confirmed pilots' account of a brief failure after a landng at Newark Liberty International Airport last month.

08.03.2024 30

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JetBlue, Spirit call it quits over $3.8 billion merger

It's "yet another victory for the Justice Department’s work on behalf of American consumers,” Attorney General Merrick Grland said.

05.03.2024 30

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Boeing safety 'disconnect' ripped in scathing report accusing rank and file of covering up quality issues for fear of retaliation

The comments were contained in a report Monday to the FAA which Congress ordered in 2020.

27.02.2024 7

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Alaska Airlines’ Boeing 737 jetliner whose panel blew out in midflight was missing security bolts, regulators say

Without the bolts, nothing prevented the panel from sliding upward and detaching from “stop pads” that secured it to the airframe.

07.02.2024 30

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Biden's FAA chief says 'current system is not working because it is not delivering safe aircraft,' wonders 'what's going on' at Boeing

“In order to have a truly safe system, it seems to me that we can't rely on the manufacturers themselves to be their own watchdogs,” Rep. Colin...

06.02.2024 10

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FAA says it won’t let Boeing expand production of 737 Max planes until quality-control concerns are addressed: ‘This won’t be back to business as usual’

The production limits will apply only to the Max, of which there are currently two models, the 8 and the 9. Boeing builds about 30 a month but has...

25.01.2024 10

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United and Alaska Airlines’ irritation with Boeing is boiling over

United CEO Scott Kirby said that Boeing needs “real action” to restore its previous reputation for quality.

24.01.2024 10

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JetBlue's failed $3.8 billion merger could send Spirit Airlines into bankruptcy, Wall Street analysts warn

Cowen's Helane Becker says it "sounds alarmist and harsh," but the likely scenario is a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, followed by a liquidation.

18.01.2024 30

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Boeing under federal investigation for door blowout that 'should have never happened and it cannot happen again'

The FAA notified Boeing of the probe in a letter, giving the aircraft maker 10 business days to present evidence or statements in its defense.

11.01.2024 7

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Alaska Airlines cancels all flights on Boeing 737 Max 9 planes—that's as many as 150 per day

The airline said it was awaiting new instructions from Boeing and federal officials on how to inspect its fleet.

10.01.2024 6

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Alaska Airlines faces scrutiny over its decision not to ground Boeing jet despite warning signs

The nation’s top accident investigator says warning lights were triggered on three flights, including each of the two days before the brand-new...

09.01.2024 10

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Holiday travel rush to  airports has begun—and so far it’s seen the ‘lowest cancellation rate in the last 5 years’

It's beginning to look a lot like a hectic holiday travel season, but it might go relatively smoothly if the weather cooperates.

21.12.2023 10

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Southwest Airlines agrees to $140m settlement for flight canceling meltdown that stranded 2 million travelers in December 2022

The assessment stems from nearly 17,000 canceled flights a year ago, starting as a winter storm paralyzed Southwest operations in Denver and...

18.12.2023 20

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‘That desire to get away is stronger than we have seen in a very long time’ as 115 million Americans expected to travel over the holiday season

The AAA predicts that the holiday season will still fall 3% short of record travel in 2019, the last Christmas before COVID-19 hit the United States.

12.12.2023 20

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