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Southwest Airlines says assigned seats and premium perks are coming in 2026

The changes will amount to the biggest ever at Southwest, which is the original low-cost airline but is now well into middle age and suffering from...

27.09.2024 10

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Checked bag fees could come to Southwest as fight between airline and Paul Singer’s hedge fund gets bitter

They will give more details at an investor meeting Thursday about dumping so-called open seating, charging a premium for the best seats, and launching...

26.09.2024 40

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Southwest plans to cut flights to Atlanta to save money and its unions are unhappy

Southwest will cut 58 flights per day and reduce its presence at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport from 18 to 11 gates, according to...

26.09.2024 9

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Boeing gives striking workers more time to consider ‘best and final’ contract offer union has already called inadequate

On picket lines in the Pacific Northwest, strikers said the company’s latest offer wasn't good enough.

25.09.2024 10

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Boeing union says planemaker’s ‘final offer’ of a 30% raise for striking workers is not good enough

The union complained that Boeing publicized its latest offer to 33,000 striking workers without first bargaining with union negotiators.

24.09.2024 10

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Alaska Airlines’ $1 billion purchase of Hawaiian Airlines gets Biden administration nod

The decision to clear the way for the airlines to merge stands in contrast to the administration’s opposition to previous deals. The DOJ...

18.09.2024 10

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Boeing considers temporary layoffs to save cash during strike

Boeing says it's considering temporary layoffs to save cash during the strike by machinists

17.09.2024 10

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Boeing machinists vote to strike after 95% reject contract with a 25% pay increase

The strike by 33,000 machinists was set to begin at one minute after midnight Friday morning.

13.09.2024 9

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New Boeing CEO makes last ditch appeal to stop strike as workers vote on unloved contract with 25% pay raise

Although the bargaining committee that negotiated the contract recommended ratification, IAM District 751 President Jon Holden predicted earlier this...

12.09.2024 10

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Southwest shakes up board but doesn’t fire CEO under pressure from Paul Singer’s activist hedge fund

Southwest said Tuesday that six directors will leave the board in November and it plans to appoint four new ones, who could include candidates put...

10.09.2024 5

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Boeing’s new CEO spent his first day walking a factory floor

Robert “Kelly” Ortberg is planting a symbolic flag in the ground back in the Pacific Northwest.

09.08.2024 8

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FAA has doubled the cases it has opened against Boeing since the door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max

The increase in cases was disclosed Wednesday during a National Transportation Safety Board hearing into the accident, which happened during an Alaska...

08.08.2024 7

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Boeing workers say they were pushed to do jobs they weren’t qualified for on door plug that blew off Alaska Airlines jet

A Boeing worker at the factory in Renton, Wash. said Boeing's safety culture is “garbage. Nobody's accountable.”

07.08.2024 10

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‘It was chaos’—Alaska Airlines co-pilot describes ‘explosive experience’ during Boeing jet fiasco

Federal investigators began questioning officials from Boeing and its key supplier on Tuesday to understand how the Jan. 5 accident occurred.

06.08.2024 7

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‘Are jurors going to see this as negligence or something worse?’ Boeing hearings underway for the 737 Max door plug blowout

The NTSB's two-day hearing revolves around the Jan. 5 accident that left a gaping hole in the side of an Alaska Airlines jet.

06.08.2024 3

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Meet Robert ‘Kelly’ Ortberg, Boeing’s next CEO and the man responsible for turning around the beleaguered aerospace giant

“He is a deeply respected leader in the aerospace industry, and brings more hope for a better future than the company has enjoyed in decades,”...

31.07.2024 8

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Boeing pleads guilty to fraud in fatal 737 Max crashes, fined $243.6 million

The deal must be approved by a judge and would require Boeing to invest at least $455 million in new compliance systems.

25.07.2024 6

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Delta still hasn’t totally recovered from the CrowdStrike outage—and Pete Buttigieg wants to know why

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke to Delta CEO Ed Bastian about the airline’s high number of cancellations.

23.07.2024 10

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Phishing attempts rise as scam artists try to exploit the CrowdStrike global tech outage

“We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said.

21.07.2024 9

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Your flight was canceled thanks to the CrowdStrike outage—now what?

American, Delta, United, Spirit and Allegiant Air had all their flights grounded Friday after a widespread software outage.

19.07.2024 10

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Boeing compliance with old plea deal over 2 jet crashes that killed 346 haunts new attempt to plead guilty to felony fraud charge

Federal prosecutors now accuse Boeing of failing to live up to terms of the 2021 settlement.

19.07.2024 10

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Record-high travel numbers did Delta no good as higher fuel and labor costs ate into its second-quarter profit

The airline's second-quarter profit dropped 29% due to higher costs and discounting of base-level fares across the industry.

11.07.2024 20

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Boeing will admit fraud charge to avoid criminal trial over 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people

Federal prosecutors gave Boeing the choice of entering a guilty plea and paying a fine or face a trial on the felony criminal charge of conspiracy...

08.07.2024 9

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TSA braces for record July 4th weekend with over 3 million travelers taking to the skies

American Airlines said Sunday is expected to be its busiest day of the entire summer; it plans more than 6,500 flights.

04.07.2024 10

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Boeing’s potential settlement with the DOJ has been called a ‘sweetheart deal’ by a crash victims’ lawyer. Here’s what to know about it

The families want to put Boeing on trial.

02.07.2024 10

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DoJ is pushing Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud, but families of victims from fatal crashes say the offer looks like a ‘sweetheart deal’

“This is just a reworking of letting Boeing off the hook."

01.07.2024 8

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Boeing CEO David Calhoun accused of ‘strip-mining’ the company for profit as Senators attack safety scandals at planemaker

The tone of the hearing was set when the panel released a 204-page report with new allegations from a whistleblower who said he worries that...

19.06.2024 10

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Activist investor wants to force out Southwest Airlines CEO after buying $1.9bn stake

It said Jordan and former CEO Gary Kelly, now the airline's executive chairman, "are not up to the task of modernizing Southwest.”

11.06.2024 20

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Boeing has laid out its plan to fix the safety and quality problems that battered its reputation

Federal Aviation Administration chief Mike Whitaker said the plan is comprehensive and includes encouraging Boeing employees to speak up about safety...

31.05.2024 30

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Boeing reaches deadline for telling the FAA how it will fix safety and quality problems

The Federal Aviation Administration required the company to produce a turnaround plan after one of its jetliners suffered a blowout of a fuselage...

30.05.2024 30

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Over 6,000 flights delayed ahead of the busiest Memorial Day in decades

“Airports are going to be more packed than we have seen in 20 years,” AAA spokesperson Aixa Diaz said.

24.05.2024 40

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Memorial Day travel jams expected to be the worst in nearly 20 years

AAA predicts this will be the busiest start-of-summer weekend in nearly 20 years, with 43.8 million people expected to travel at least 50 miles from...

23.05.2024 50

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Boeing criminal charges: DOJ sees breach of settlement that staved off prosecution

In a letter, Glenn Leon, head of the DOJ criminal division's fraud section, said Boeing failed to make promised changes to detect and prevent...

15.05.2024 20

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Boeing violated a deal that allowed it to sidestep criminal prosecution. Now, charges could be back on the table

Boeing reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the Justice Department in January 2021 to avoid prosecution.

15.05.2024 20

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Congress passes $105 billion bill to ease air traffic controller shortage as planes keep nearly crashing on the tarmac

The funding bill aims to make it easier to hire air traffic controllers amid a shortage of 3,000.

30.04.2024 60

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Boeing’s financial woes continue as families of 737 Max crash victims push U.S. to prosecute the plane maker

About a dozen relatives of passengers who died in the second crash met with government officials for several hours Wednesday in Washington.

25.04.2024 20

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UAW’s next big Southern test after winning Tennessee union vote is Alabama

The UAW has accused the German carmaker of violating U.S. and German labor laws with aggressive anti-union tactics, which the company denies.

22.04.2024 50

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Congress hauls in Boeing whistleblower who claims 787 skin is so loose it could break apart

Back-to-back hearings Wednesday will examine allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer.

17.04.2024 50

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Frustrating flight cancellations, daylong waits prompt DOT to strike deal on airline consumer complaints

These issues are "a violation of passenger rights, and we are seeing far too many cases of that,” said DOT secretary Pete Buttigieg.

17.04.2024 10

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Boeing fights off fresh whistleblower allegations, while saying employee reports have ‘exploded … which is what we want’

Two Boeing engineering executives went into detail Monday to describe how panels are fitted together, particularly on the 787 Dreamliner.

16.04.2024 20

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Boeing promises to work with employees to correct quality lapses after FAA review finds aircraft maker failed 33 production aspects at one plant

The aircraft maker detailed its latest steps to correct lapses in quality in a memo to employees from Stan Deal, president of Boeing's commercial...

13.03.2024 30

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Boeing 737 Max’s rudder controls briefly failed last month, federal investigators say

Federal investigators said they confirmed pilots' account of a brief failure after a landng at Newark Liberty International Airport last month.

08.03.2024 30

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JetBlue, Spirit call it quits over $3.8 billion merger

It's "yet another victory for the Justice Department’s work on behalf of American consumers,” Attorney General Merrick Grland said.

05.03.2024 30

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Boeing safety 'disconnect' ripped in scathing report accusing rank and file of covering up quality issues for fear of retaliation

The comments were contained in a report Monday to the FAA which Congress ordered in 2020.

27.02.2024 7

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Alaska Airlines’ Boeing 737 jetliner whose panel blew out in midflight was missing security bolts, regulators say

Without the bolts, nothing prevented the panel from sliding upward and detaching from “stop pads” that secured it to the airframe.

07.02.2024 30

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Biden's FAA chief says 'current system is not working because it is not delivering safe aircraft,' wonders 'what's going on' at Boeing

“In order to have a truly safe system, it seems to me that we can't rely on the manufacturers themselves to be their own watchdogs,” Rep. Colin...

06.02.2024 10

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FAA says it won’t let Boeing expand production of 737 Max planes until quality-control concerns are addressed: ‘This won’t be back to business as usual’

The production limits will apply only to the Max, of which there are currently two models, the 8 and the 9. Boeing builds about 30 a month but has...

25.01.2024 10

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United and Alaska Airlines’ irritation with Boeing is boiling over

United CEO Scott Kirby said that Boeing needs “real action” to restore its previous reputation for quality.

24.01.2024 10

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JetBlue's failed $3.8 billion merger could send Spirit Airlines into bankruptcy, Wall Street analysts warn

Cowen's Helane Becker says it "sounds alarmist and harsh," but the likely scenario is a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, followed by a liquidation.

18.01.2024 30

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Boeing under federal investigation for door blowout that 'should have never happened and it cannot happen again'

The FAA notified Boeing of the probe in a letter, giving the aircraft maker 10 business days to present evidence or statements in its defense.

11.01.2024 7

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