Southwest uses the same new Boeing plane in Indonesia crash
Mar 24, 2019, 7:45 pm
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/polit...max/index.html
Updated 9:31 PM ET, Sun March 24, 2019
Boeing testing software changes to 737 MAX planes
"At the gathering, pilots from the three American carriers, plus two smaller non-US airlines, ran simulated flights designed to mimic the situation that brought down the Lion Air flight in Indonesia last year, using the current and updated software, according to the person briefed on the session."
Updated 9:31 PM ET, Sun March 24, 2019
Boeing testing software changes to 737 MAX planes
"At the gathering, pilots from the three American carriers, plus two smaller non-US airlines, ran simulated flights designed to mimic the situation that brought down the Lion Air flight in Indonesia last year, using the current and updated software, according to the person briefed on the session."
Mar 24, 2019, 8:16 pm
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/polit...max/index.html
Updated 9:31 PM ET, Sun March 24, 2019
Boeing testing software changes to 737 MAX planes
"At the gathering, pilots from the three American carriers, plus two smaller non-US airlines, ran simulated flights designed to mimic the situation that brought down the Lion Air flight in Indonesia last year, using the current and updated software, according to the person briefed on the session."
Updated 9:31 PM ET, Sun March 24, 2019
Boeing testing software changes to 737 MAX planes
"At the gathering, pilots from the three American carriers, plus two smaller non-US airlines, ran simulated flights designed to mimic the situation that brought down the Lion Air flight in Indonesia last year, using the current and updated software, according to the person briefed on the session."
Mar 24, 2019, 8:44 pm
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More interesting for us is, "American alone is canceling dozens of flights a day as a result of the grounding of the MAX aircraft." WN has different cards to play, i.e. their entire fleet is 737s, but look forward to reading the HBR Case Study about what both airlines did to load balance their fleets during this situation.
"Dozens" a day? Figures don't lie, but..................
Mar 24, 2019, 11:53 pm
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/polit...max/index.html
Updated 9:31 PM ET, Sun March 24, 2019
Boeing testing software changes to 737 MAX planes
"At the gathering, pilots from the three American carriers, plus two smaller non-US airlines, ran simulated flights designed to mimic the situation that brought down the Lion Air flight in Indonesia last year, using the current and updated software, according to the person briefed on the session."
Updated 9:31 PM ET, Sun March 24, 2019
Boeing testing software changes to 737 MAX planes
"At the gathering, pilots from the three American carriers, plus two smaller non-US airlines, ran simulated flights designed to mimic the situation that brought down the Lion Air flight in Indonesia last year, using the current and updated software, according to the person briefed on the session."
I'm also surprised about the lack of comment the EU's conflict of interest.
Mar 25, 2019, 3:58 pm
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https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today
"Dozens" a day? Figures don't lie, but..................
"Dozens" a day? Figures don't lie, but..................
...and is the same as Alaska which has a mostly Boeing 737, but not Max8, fleet..
Mar 25, 2019, 7:21 pm
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Known information. What I was asking was who executes safety oversight? Otherwise it's spurious parallelism. Boeing has taken over more and more of the FAAs job.
Mar 25, 2019, 9:13 pm
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They could be canceling the 737 NG flights in order to cannibalize the aircraft for routes/flights that were originally supposed to be flown with the MAX.
Mar 25, 2019, 10:34 pm
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Southwest, which has 34 Max aircraft, is making cancellations five days in advance, with an average of 130 daily cancellations.
Mar 26, 2019, 12:36 am
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Understood. My point was that the Flight Aware numbers don't accurately show the number of cancellations due to the MAX grounding, since it doesn't include any of the actual MAX flights.
Mar 26, 2019, 10:23 am
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https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today
"Dozens" a day? Figures don't lie, but..................
"Dozens" a day? Figures don't lie, but..................
Is Southwest still only allowing people till the end of the month to rebook for free? I wonder if they will actually be able to wet-lease or otherwise get enough planes to cover the gap that pulling these out of service must have caused.
Mar 26, 2019, 11:30 am
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What does that have to do with the political conflict of interest. I don't know for sure but I'd bet the EU and the FAA used pretty much the same information to certify the Max 8.
Mar 26, 2019, 12:18 pm
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The Southwest link there is not accurate as I know the flight from PIT->LAS today was cancelled (and has been for several days, and will be tomorrow) but is not on the list. I suppose that's a pro-active cancellation (it doesn't show as 'cancelled' on FlightAware's list, it just doesn't show as in service for that day) so there are definitely more cancellations than shown here.
Is Southwest still only allowing people till the end of the month to rebook for free? I wonder if they will actually be able to wet-lease or otherwise get enough planes to cover the gap that pulling these out of service must have caused.
Is Southwest still only allowing people till the end of the month to rebook for free? I wonder if they will actually be able to wet-lease or otherwise get enough planes to cover the gap that pulling these out of service must have caused.
Hopefully Southwest is able to lease some planes to fill the temporary gap, however I haven't seen any announcement about that.