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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.
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
In response to the outbreak of a rapidly spreading COVID-19 virus mutation, over 40 countries have banned flights from the UK. At the same time, the UK government has shut down most of London and South East England in a new round of lockdowns. Over the weekend, rank-and-file Londoners flocked to train and bus stations to get out of town while they still could. But according to Business Insider, members of the monied class didn't have to battle for space on an overhead storage bin. Instead, British high society went to London's private jet terminals to catch charter flights out of the country.
REUTERS/Mike Blake LUV Southwest Airlin 46.03 -0.22 (-0.48 %) Disclaimer Get real-time LUV charts here " Southwest Airlines said Wednesday that it plans to fly passengers on the Boeing 737 Max again in March. CEO Gary Kelly had previously said the jet's first flight would "likely take place no sooner than the second quarter of 2021." Southwest will receive 35 more jets in 2021, more than doubling its current pre-grounding fleet of Max aircraft. Passengers looking to avoid the jet will be allowed to make free changes, but Southwest says it reserves the right to use the Max for any flight.
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
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