Alaska Airlines has cancelled 21pc of its flights and United Airlines cancelled 9pc after Saturday’s blow out of a window on Alaska Flight 8218, though not all cancelations may be attributed to the Max 9 grounding. Nearly two-thirds of the world’s 215 Max 9 aircraft are operated by these two US carriers:
- United Airlines, the largest operator of Boeing 747 Max 9s, has followed Alaska Airlines in grounding its fleet of 79 Max 9s.
- Panamanian carrier Turkish Airlines has withdrawn its five Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft from service for inspection,
- Copa Airlines has complied with an FAA order, temporarily suspending its fleet of 21 Boeing 737 Max 9s.
- Turkish Airlines said it had withdrawn its five Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft from service for inspection.
- Panamanian carrier Copa Airlines has temporarily grounded 21 737 Max 9 aircraft.
- Aeromexico said it was grounding all of its 737 Max 9 planes while inspections are carried out.
- Icelandair said none of its 737 Max 9s featured the plane configuration specified in the FAA grounding order.
- Flydubai said the three Boeing 737 Max 9 planes in its fleet were not affected.
- The European Union’s Aviation Safety Agency adopted the FAA directive, but said no EU member state airlines “currently operate an aircraft in the affected configuration”.
- England’s air safety regulator said it would require any 737 Max 9 operator to comply with the FAA directive to enter its airspace.
