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Added on the 02/12/2020 18:13:26 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Boeing Co's 737 MAX aircraft takes off on its inaugural flight, as the company battles for market share against the rival A320neo made by French-based Airbus. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
Boeing's 737 MAX is set to return to the skies with a commercial flight in Brazil. Low-cost airline Gol's Flight 4104 from Sao Paulo to the southern city of Porto Alegre will see the revamped jet used in a first that Boeing hopes will turn the page on a badly damaging crisis in the wake of two deadly crashes crashes. IMAGES inside the aircraft
A one hour test flight of the Boeing 737 MAX with media onboard has safely landed in Tulsa, Oklahoma from Dallas, Texas. The plane was grounded for 20 months following two deadly crashes. IMAGES
Passengers board the first Ethiopian Airlines flight on a Boeing 737 MAX since a crash nearly three years ago killed all 157 people on board and triggered the global grounding of the aircraft. IMAGES
Delta Air Lines reportedly cancelled 325 flights in the days leading up to Christmas. Christmas was the busiest travel season of the pandemic. A perfect storm of bad weather and a lack of pilots forced Delta to cancel the flights over a three-day period starting December 23. Business Insider reports Thanksgiving similarly saw over 600 flight cancellations at the airline. The cancellations reveal a trend of poor performance for Delta during the holidays.