{"id":264077,"date":"2019-03-14T05:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264077"},"modified":"2019-03-14T05:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:08:17","slug":"ethiopia-crash-likely-to-hit-planemakers-future-as-airlines-rethink-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ethiopia-crash-likely-to-hit-planemakers-future-as-airlines-rethink-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia crash likely to hit planemaker&#8217;s future as Airlines rethink orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing Co. 737 Max crash in Ethiopia looks increasingly likely to hit the planemaker\u2019s future orders as mounting safety concerns prompt airlines to reconsider plans to purchase the jetliner. <\/p>\n<p>Kenya Airways Plc is reevaluating proposals to buy the latest version of the single-aisle workhorse and could switch to Airbus SE\u2019s rival A320 or upgauge to Boeing\u2019s larger 787 Dreamliner, Chairman Michael Joseph said by email. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s as Indonesia\u2019s Lion Air firms up moves to drop a $22 billion order for the 737 in favor of the Airbus model, according to a person with knowledge of the plan. One of the carrier\u2019s Max jets crashed on Oct. 29, souring relations with Boeing after the manufacturer pointed to maintenance issues and human error as the underlying cause, even though the plane\u2019s pilots had been battling a computerized system that took control following a sensor malfunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing Co. 737 Max crash in Ethiopia looks increasingly likely to hit the planemaker\u2019s future orders as mounting safety concerns prompt airlines to reconsider plans to purchase the jetliner. Kenya Airways Plc is reevaluating proposals to buy the latest version of the single-aisle workhorse and could switch to Airbus SE\u2019s rival A320 or upgauge to Boeing\u2019s larger 787 Dreamliner, Chairman Michael Joseph said by email. That\u2019s as Indonesia\u2019s Lion Air firms up moves to drop a $22 billion order for the 737 in favor of the Airbus model, according to a person with knowledge of the plan. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}