Canada keeps Boeing 737 Max 8 in the air — for now — as authorities around the world ground jets
Canadian and American airlines are among the few carriers still flying the Boeing 737 Max 8 jet involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people on Sunday, with aviation authorities around the world grounding the majority of the fleet after its second mass-fatality crash in less than five months.
Still, Air Canada, which operates 24 of the jets, had to cancel flights from Halifax and St. John’s to London on Tuesday and Wednesday to obey the suspension by the United Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Authority. But some passengers are still concerned, with many expressing their reservations about the jet on social media. Flight Centre travel agency told The Canadian Press that the airlines aren’t waiving change fees for customers seeking to rebook their flights on other aircraft.
Shares of Boeing Co., the world’s largest plane maker and best-performing Dow Jones component this year by a wide margin, dropped 6.2 per cent, following loses of 5.3 per cent on Monday. For its part, Boeing said it understands that authorities have made grounding decisions that they believe are appropriate for their markets.
“For the past several months and in the aftermath of Lion Air Flight 610, Boeing has been developing a flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX, designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer,” Boeing stated.
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