United Airways planes, together with a Boeing 737 MAX 9 mannequin, are pictured at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, March 18
United Airways planes, together with a Boeing 737 MAX 9 mannequin, are pictured at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, March 18, 2019.
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United Airlines is following Southwest and American Airways in delaying the return of the Boeing 737 Max on its flight schedules into early March.
United is pulling the jets off its schedule till March 4, the corporate mentioned Friday. It expects to cancel roughly 5,100 flights in November and December and roughly 3,468 flights in 2020.
“For greater than 90 years, the security of our prospects and staff at United has come first, which is why we now have cooperated absolutely with the FAA’s impartial overview of the MAX plane, and we cannot put our prospects and staff on that airplane till regulators make their very own impartial evaluation that it’s secure to take action,” mentioned the airline in a press launch.
The airline joins Southwest Airlines and American Airlines, which additionally pushed back their respective return-to-service dates final week. Southwest introduced that it’s going to take away all 737 Max planes from its flight schedule by way of March 6, whereas American Airways mentioned it’ll delay business use of the plane till March 5.
United had beforehand grounded its fleet of 14 737 Max planes through Jan. 5.
Boeing, in the meantime, has continued to undergo from the worldwide grounding of the 737…