A triple-digit sale of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to US-based Southwest Airlines has now been confirmed, making it the largest MAX deal Boeing has secured since the global grounding order was lifted on the jet in November 2020. The deal also includes options for an additional 155 MAX aircraft. With the addition of these new
Boeing has officially resumed deliveries on its 787 Dreamliner widebodies following a slew of quality control inspections, making it the first time Boeing has completed a 787 delivery since October. After more than four months of halted deliveries, the planemaker officially delivered one Dreamliner to US airline United Airlines on Friday. A Boeing spokesperson later
Boeing has found another manufacturing fault in some of its 787 Dreamliners, and will begin carrying out inspections on flight deck windows. The embattled US planemaker has said it has already begun testing the cockpit windows in a limited batch of aircraft, after it learned that a supplier had altered its production process. As such,
Boeing has officially been requested to hand over thousands of documents that will reveal exactly what the planemaker, and its prominent staff, knew about the nature of the first fatal 737 MAX crash prior to the second, five months later. A class action suit against Boeing taken out by the families of the victims of
Boeing is reportedly closing in on a multibillion-dollar deal to sell dozens of its embattled 737 MAX jets in what is rumoured to be the largest deal the planemaker has secured since the aircraft was grounded in 2019. According to a report from Reuters, the US planemaker is negotiating a deal with Texas-based Southwest Airlines,
US planemaker Boeing has reportedly flagged “many potential hazards” in European rival Airbus’ new narrow-body jet, the A321XLR, in a submission made to the EASA. The Airbus A321XLR is set to the longest-range single-aisle jet, however Boeing has informed the European Union Aviation Safety Agency that the architecture of the fuel tank designed to increase
