#FEDEX TRACKING US GROUND UPDATE#

“We regret the significant disruption that has been caused for our guests by cancellations due to these aircraft being out of service.

#FEDEX TRACKING US GROUND UPDATE#

The FAA is still reviewing guidance on the inspections from Boeing.Īs of Wednesday, Alaska’s latest update said that the airline is still waiting for documentation from Boeing and the FAA to begin inspection of its 737-9 MAX fleet. Alaska Airlines has also said it is working with Boeing to understand what happened on Flight 1282.

The planes remain grounded pending details on FAA-mandated inspections. The FAA said the planes must be parked until emergency inspections are performed, which will “take around four to eight hours per aircraft.” On Saturday, the FAA ordered the grounding of 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft that have “ a mid-cabin door plug installed.” It’s the model of the Boeing plane involved in the Alaska Airlines blowout incident. The FAA has grounded affected Max 9s for inspection for days, and neither airline has has hinted that flights on those planes will resume soon. “By cancelling this far in advance, we’re trying to create more certainty for our customers and more flexibility for our frontline teams to do their work,” the airline said in a statement, “Those things will be especially important as we also manage disruptive winter weather throughout much of the country.”Īlaska Airlines said in a statement Wednesday that it canceled all flights on 737-9 MAX aircraft through Saturday, January 13 – about 110-150 flights per day.īoth Alaska and United Airlines say they found loose hardware or bolts in the assembly of door plugs – the part of the plane that flew off last week’s Alaska flight – on their Boeing 737 Max 9s. United Airlines also announced on Friday that the airline extended its cancellation of Boeing 737 Max 9 flights through January 16. On Friday, United canceled 10% of its operations and Alaska Airlines canceled 21%, according FlightAware data. The troubles are still ongoing for the airlines, which are the two largest US carriers that use the Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft. It left a gaping hole in the side of the plane and ripped headrests off seats as the plane flew at 16,000 feet shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon, carrying 177 people.Īlaska on Friday confirmed to CNN that within 24 hours of the flight, it offered $1,500 cash and access to mental health resources for passengers of Flight 1282. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded more than 150 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft after a piece of the fuselage blew off an Alaska Airlines flight last Friday. Passengers on Alaska Airlines and United Airlines have been marred by hundreds of flight cancellations this week. The FAA and Boeing are still trying to settle on an inspection protocol that would allow those planes to resume flying.įlightAware shows Southwest, which doesn’t fly the 737 Max 9, cancelling nearly 400 flights, the most of any airline. More than 200 United and Alaska Airlines flights have been cancelled each day this week due to the FAA-mandated grounding. Nearly 40% of Milwaukee’s flights are also cancelled.Ĭancellations due to the grounding of the 737 Max 9 planes are also contributing to the totals. Denver and Milwaukee flights are also being hard hit by the storm. O’Hare airport posted on social media that more than 650 flights have been “proactively canceled” by the airlines. Chicago’s two major airports are seeing the bulk of the cancellations, with nearly 40% of departing flights at O’Hare, and more than 60% of departing flights at Midway are cancelled, according to FlightAware. Most of the cancellations are due to a winter storm that is pounding the Midwest. It is the most flights cancelled since June 2023. Last year, there were only three days when more than 2000 flights were cancelled, FlightAware data show, making today the fourth worst day for flight cancellations in the last 12 months. Only a handful of days in all of 2023 had more cancellations than Friday’s total. There have been more than more than 2000 flight cancellations Friday, the highest number since July 2023, data from the tracking site FlightAware show. Winter weather, combined with the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft, is causing major disruptions for air travel.

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