Just five months after amending its Boeing order and adding more MAX 9s, Alaska Airlines has again announced fleet updates on May 12. Both Boeing and Embraer benefit from Alaska’s order. The airline has exercised options with Boeing on thirteen MAX…
The FAA has shed more light on the electrical issues of the MAX. The regulator released an Airworthiness Directive (AD) on April 30, which specifies the extent of the problems in the cockpit area of the Boeing. In a Continued Airworthiness…
Southwest is the first US airline to make a profit again. It reported a positive result on the same day when American announced a $-1.250 billion first-quarter loss. But the mood is changing for the better as American almost returned…
How’s the 737 MAX doing in the US? The FAA cleared Boeing 737 MAX for commercial flights late last year. Operators had to undertake quite a bit of work to bring the parked aircraft into the newly approved specifications. We…
It’s been several months waiting for the DB1B to be updated and it is so at last! The update gives a look at the entire 2020, a year that lives in infamy (to quote somebody famous). There are three databases…
The US airline industry faces a hurdle found nowhere else, a Scope Clause that limits regional airlines to protect pilots at the Big Three Network airlines, American, Delta, and United. While this limit is seen as a sort of tyranny…