Tag: 737 MAX

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 07:53 UTC

  Boeing will pay US$ 2,5bn to resolve investigation related to the 737 MAX crashes

  

  Boeing Co will pay over US$ 2.5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into criminal conspiracy charges related to two deadly 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people, the Justice Department said, but the plane maker will not be required to plead guilty.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Boeing customers cancelled order for 355 of 737 MAX jets in first half of 2020

  

  Boeing customers cancelled orders for 355 of its 737 MAX jets in the first half of 2020, the US planemaker said on Tuesday, as the damage done by the jet's grounding and the coronavirus crisis to the airline industry continued to mount.

• Thursday, May 14th 2020 - 07:36 UTC

  Brazil's Gol Airlines recovers US$ 412 million compensation from Boeing

  

  Brazil airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes said on Wednesday it will receive a total of 2.4 billion reais (US$412.03 million) from Boeing Co as compensation for the grounding of the 737 MAX plane, which has not flown in over a year.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  American Airlines reaches agreement with Boeing on the 737 MAX grounding

  

  American Airlines on Monday became the latest carrier to reach an agreement with Boeing on compensation to cover the financial losses connected to the 737 MAX grounding, which caused thousands of flights to be canceled.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 08:51 UTC

  Pilots started class-action lawsuit accusing Boeing of covering up the 737 MAX faulty sensor

  

  An airline pilot, identified only as ‘Pilot X’ in court documents, started a class-action lawsuit against Boeing, accusing US plane maker of covering up the 737 MAX’s faulty sensor issue and keeping pilots in the dark about the feature in the pursuit of quick returns.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Huge boost for Boeing: IAG (British Airways) orders 200 737 Max, US$ 24bn deal

  

  US aircraft giant Boeing got a welcome vote of confidence in its beleaguered 737 MAX plane on Tuesday when International Airlines Group (IAG), owner of British Airways, said it wanted to buy 200 of the planes.

• Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Boeing facing more discrepancies over safety alert mechanisms in the 737 MAX

  

  Boeing Co did not tell US regulators for more than a year that it inadvertently made an alarm alerting pilots to a mismatch of flight data optional on the 737 Max, instead of standard as on earlier 737s, but insisted on Sunday the missing display represented no safety risk.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 10:01 UTC

  Boeing's commercial division makes major reshuffle in top positions; US$ 500bn in 737Max orders on hold

  

  
Boeing Co's commercial airplane division, facing its biggest crisis in years following deadly crashes of its flagship 737Max, has brought in a new vice president of engineering while dedicating another top executive to the aircraft investigations, a company email showed on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 22:23 UTC

  Southwest Airlines makes largest aircraft order: 208 Boeing single-aisles 737

  

  The US Southwest Airlines ordered single-aisle 737s with a catalog value totaling 19 billion dollars from Boeing Co., the largest aircraft order ever and the first to include the more fuel-efficient MAX variant.