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...The US aviation regulator has recommended that airlines check an older version of Boeing’s 737 jet that has the same kind of door plug as that which blew out on an Alaska Airlines aircraft earlier this month...
...The biggest operators are United Airlines and Alaska Airlines in the US, Turkish Airlines and Copa Airlines of Panama. Copa said it had temporarily suspended flights of 21 Boeing 737 Max 9 jets....
...A 737 Max jet left a Boeing factory missing four bolts designed to secure a door panel that blew off in mid-flight last month, according to a preliminary report by a US regulator....
...United Airlines and Alaska Airlines on Monday found bolts in the plugged doors of some of their Max 9s that needed tightening....
...Southwest Airlines and American Airlines, the two US carriers that fly the jet, also continued to defend it as safe, as did pilots’ unions for both companies....
...Tui’s got some cash out of Boeing in compensation for its collection of static 737 Max jets....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...It took the prestigious title sponsorship of the Thunder Over Michigan airshow, where visitors to Willow Run were able to see Baltia’s jet....
...Many airlines, including Lufthansa and Air France-KLM, sent their jets over eastern Ukraine until the MH17 crash....
...These lithium-ion batteries, used to power some of Dreamliner’s electrical systems, are different to the one that caught fire on a 787 parked at Heathrow in July last year and operated by Ethiopian Airlines...
...The European Aviation Safety Agency said the proposed deactivation of the Dreamliner’s emergency locator transmitter did not mean the aircraft would have to be grounded again – the jet could fly temporarily...
...The jet’s tail broke off before the rest of the plane skidded off the runway....
...on Monday admitted it may never be established why batteries failed on two of its high-tech Dreamliner aircraft, as work began to fix the safety problem that grounded the company’s wide-body passenger jet...
...Airlines are continuing to remove the aircraft from their schedules....
...Shares in Boeing fell sharply after All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines became the first airlines to ground their 787 Dreamliners because of concerns about the safety of the passenger jet....
...There are more than 800 orders still outstanding for the Dreamliner, the fastest-selling wide-body passenger jet in Boeing’s history....
...jet among consumers and carriers....
...This incident came nine days after a 787 on the ground at Boston airport in the US, operated by Japan Airlines, suffered a fire....
...Airbus’s humility also stems from problems with its A380 Superjumbo – the second-newest passenger jet in service after the 787....
...Airlines operating the Boeing 787 Dreamliner outside of Japan have closed ranks behind the passenger jet, ruling out suspension of the aircraft....
...The third crash involved a Bombardier Global Express jet landing in high winds near a golf resort in Nova Scotia....
...He also represents a sizeable slice of the airline community....
...Thus far, the economic recovery is tepid, and we expect record high hedged jet fuel prices,” said Gary Kelly, chief executive....
...On Tuesday, Continental Airlines prompted a rally among airlines after reporting that revenues from its main jet operations in December fell at the slowest rate for 11 months....
...Airbus’s A330 long-haul jet....
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