{"id":627126,"date":"2024-01-08T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=627126"},"modified":"2024-01-08T12:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T07:06:51","slug":"alaska-airlines-cancels-more-than-200-flights-as-faa-grounds-171-boeing-737-max-9-jets-for-immediate-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/alaska-airlines-cancels-more-than-200-flights-as-faa-grounds-171-boeing-737-max-9-jets-for-immediate-inspections\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines cancels more than 200 flights as FAA grounds 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets for immediate inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines faced widespread disruptions over the weekend as it canceled 170 flights on Sunday and an additional 60 on Monday in response to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s (FAA) directive to ground 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes for immediate inspections. <\/p>\n<p>The cancellations are expected to extend into the first half of the week, affecting nearly 25,000 passengers, according to the Seattle-based carrier, which operates a fleet of 65 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>Why was Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft temporarily grounded? <\/p>\n<p>The FAA\u2019s order for the temporary grounding came on Saturday after an alarming incident involving an eight-week-old Alaska Airlines jet. The aircraft experienced a fuselage gap shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, bound for Ontario, California, leading to an emergency landing. Fortunately, all 171 passengers and six crew members were unharmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines faced widespread disruptions over the weekend as it canceled 170 flights on Sunday and an additional 60 on Monday in response to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s (FAA) directive to ground 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes for immediate inspections. The cancellations are expected to extend into the first half of the week, affecting nearly 25,000 passengers, according to the Seattle-based carrier, which operates a fleet of 65 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. Why was Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft temporarily grounded? The FAA\u2019s order for the temporary grounding came on Saturday after an alarming incident involving an [&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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627126","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=627126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}