In a year defined by a roughly month-long grounding of its Boeing 737 Max ... first quarter, followed in May by an additional $61 million in credits. Last year, Alaska also closed a $1.9 billion ...

As a new year begins, this week’s Flight Friday looks back to an event that happened one year ago: the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 (MAX 9) door plug blowout on Jan. 5, 2024, and the impact and ...

New details have emerged regarding how the door plug on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 ... Max 9 passenger flights. The FAA has also increased oversight at Boeing's factories: "First and foremost ...

To make things worse, I assumed the first-class seats would be as nice as those I've seen on other airlines. My heart sank when I learned that Alaska Airlines' first-class seats don't recline much ...

Several bolts were missing from a door plug that blew out mid-flight from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 plane in January, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board ...

Nearly a year after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 aircraft, Boeing says it has made strides improving safety for airline passengers. The company announced Friday that it ...

Among them, The Air Current, which was first to report on the NTSB sanctions ... not installed in the assembly when the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet left Boeing’s facility.

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane sits at a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Jan. 6, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. Four Alaska Airlines crew members were hospitalized after ...