United Airlines has hundreds of lie-flat business class seats sitting in storage, ordered years ago for a Boeing 737 MAX 10 that still isn’t in service. The seats are Elevate’s Altitude — an aisle-facing herringbone suite, adapted in a slightly…
Wednesday, a new documentary about Boeing will drop on Netflix. Their first Netflix documentary about Boeing focused on the 737 MAX crashes, while this one apparently focuses on quality concerns, whistle-blowers, and the Alaska door plug issues that finally resulted…
Boeing today published its July Orders and Deliveries report. Boeing delivered 53 aircraft during the month and took in firm orders for 38 aircraft during July. The company also reported 8 order cancellations to net 30 orders. While July included…
American Airlines is sending two contradictory signals this month. On one side: a voluntary unpaid leave program offering 1,205 flight attendants — about 4% of the cabin crew workforce — a paid-nothing September, after fuel costs forced six domestic route…
Boeing’s 777X program has run into a new customer problem. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr confirmed the airline is preparing to reject some of the early-built 777-9 aircraft allocated to it, following Emirates, which already refused the first 10 777-9s built for…
The FAA issued an amended type certificate for the Boeing 737 MAX 7 today, along with an updated Production Limitation Record authorizing Boeing to begin manufacturing the aircraft for delivery. Almost a decade after the MAX 7 was first announced,…