{"id":641803,"date":"2024-04-19T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=641803"},"modified":"2024-04-19T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T06:36:01","slug":"prioritising-quality-safety-of-boeing-products-over-production-alaska-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/prioritising-quality-safety-of-boeing-products-over-production-alaska-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Prioritising quality, safety of Boeing products over production: Alaska Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Air Group is not concerned about the production rate of Boeing&#8217;s 737 MAX planes as it is more focused on the quality and safety of the planemaker&#8217;s jets, a top company executive said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-based carrier had to ground its MAX 9 fleet for weeks following a mid-air cabin panel blowout on one of its flights in January. The grounding cost the company $162 million in the first quarter, resulting in a quarterly loss. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Chief Financial Officer Shane Tackett said Alaska has deployed more of its inspectors at Boeing&#8217;s factories since the incident to ensure the jetmaker produces the highest quality aircraft that it can confidently fly safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Air Group is not concerned about the production rate of Boeing&#8217;s 737 MAX planes as it is more focused on the quality and safety of the planemaker&#8217;s jets, a top company executive said on Thursday. The Seattle-based carrier had to ground its MAX 9 fleet for weeks following a mid-air cabin panel blowout on one of its flights in January. The grounding cost the company $162 million in the first quarter, resulting in a quarterly loss. In an interview, Chief Financial Officer Shane Tackett said Alaska has deployed more of its inspectors at Boeing&#8217;s factories since the incident to [&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-641803","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\/641803","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=641803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}