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An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 Max lands March 23, 2020, at Paine Field near Boeing's manufacturing facility in Everett, Wash., north of Seattle. The airline has ordered more of the Max jets.

Now that Boeing 737 Max is cleared to fly, Alaska Airlines signs deal for more jets

November 23, 2020 at 1:38 p.m.

Days after the Federal Aviation Administration cleared Boeing's 737 Max to fly passengers again, Alaska Airlines became the first carrier to expand its fleet of the aircraft. Alaska announced Monday...

The Federal Aviation Administration approved Boeing's fixes for the 737 Max and cleared the Max to return to service Nov. 18, 2020.

The Boeing 737 Max has crashed twice and been grounded for nearly two years. But here’s why U.S. airlines are eager to fly the upgraded jet.

November 18, 2020 at 3:55 p.m.

Though Boeing's 737 Max will return to service at a bleak moment in the airline industry when the pandemic has dried up demand, some carriers want the plane flying again...

A 737 Boeing Max is pictured on he tarmac with its signature winglet and fuel-efficient engines March 11, 2019, outside the company's factory on March 11, 2019 in Renton, Washington. The Max has its bigger engines placed further forward on its wings than earlier 737 models.

Is the Boeing 737 Max now safe to fly? Here’s a look at the jet’s past problems and future challenges.

September 14, 2020 at 10:49 a.m.

Shrouded by the darkest clouds in its history from the unprecedented pandemic-driven collapse of the airliner business, Chicago-based Boeing has one glimmer of a silver lining left for 2020: The...

MORE FREQUENT AND DEEPER CLEANING OF HOTELS | Hotel housekeeping staff already have a pretty tough job, and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, they're having to do deeper and more frequent cleanings of hotel rooms and facilities, also often using electrostatic sprayers.

Confluence of crises leaves Boeing ‘a very stricken company,’ says major airline’s president

July 16, 2020 at 9:59 a.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens some major airlines across the globe with bankruptcy, and both Boeing and its archrival Airbus will have to adapt and shrink until some degree of normality...

Boeing, struggling with COVID-19 pandemic and 737 Max crisis, is ‘a very stricken company,’ Emirates president says

July 15, 2020 at 1:50 p.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens some major airlines across the globe with bankruptcy, and both Boeing and its archrival Airbus will have to adapt and shrink until some degree of normality...

Paramedics transport a man believed to be Hong Kong's first coronavirus patient to a hospital on Jan. 22, 2020.

The 737 Max has been grounded for a year, and Boeing faces an uncertain, complicated future

March 10, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

The extended grounding of Boeing's 737 Max, which this week passes the one-year mark, has made the jet-maker's future tough and uncertain. Now the global spread of the coronavirus —...

Coronavirus effect staggers the aviation industry as air travel shrivels

March 3, 2020 at 4:37 p.m.

AUSTIN, Texas — The suddenly spiking U.S. death toll from the novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 threatens to have swift and dire effects in the aviation industry, affecting both airlines...

Coronavirus staggers air travel industry. ‘This will be a very tough year for airlines.’

March 3, 2020 at 2:48 p.m.

The suddenly spiking U.S. death toll from the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 threatens to have swift and dire effects in the aviation industry, affecting both airlines and Chicago-based Boeing....

How is Boeing doing? Well, last month it got orders for exactly zero planes, an all-time low.

February 12, 2020 at 4:03 p.m.

In January, Boeing won no new airplane orders and delivered just 13 jets. While January is typically a very slow month for both Airbus and Boeing as they take a...

Boeing employees and family members cheer the 777X after it landed at Boeing Field in Seattle, completing its first flight on Jan. 25, 2020.

Boeing 777X takes to the air, with wings so long they must fold at the gate

January 27, 2020 at 3:49 p.m.

Boeing's big 777X took off Saturday at 10:09 a.m. and headed northward through low clouds on a first flight that lasted nearly four hours. It was an understated event, with...

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