14.9 years Total 737-800 seat capacity: 52,116 737 MAX 8 average age: 4 years Total 737 MAX 8 seat capacity: 17,200 For years ...

which culminated in a near catastrophe involving a Boeing 737-9 Max aircraft earlier this year. An Alaska Airlines flight carrying 177 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing on Jan. 5 ...

The Dallas-based carrier only operates the MAX 8s. The first aircraft delivered to Southwest was N8710M on August 26, 2017.

The company was already wrestling with financial and operational issues heightened after a Jan. 5 midair incident involving a 737 Max 9 door-plug panel. Then came a seven-week Boeing machinists ...

While the strike by more than 33,000 Boeing machinists - represented by the International Association of Machinists and ...

Though profits declined, passenger traffic was up 9% to a record 115 million for the first half ... Ryanair is one of Boeing's biggest customers and exclusively uses the 737 jet.

The striking machinists can return to work as early as the first shift on Wednesday ... Earlier this year, a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft shortly after it ...

In the aftermath of the incident, the FAA temporarily grounded over 170 of Boeing's 737 Max 9 planes until ... Passengers from the Alaska Airlines flight filed a class action suit against the ...

Striking workers at embattled plane maker Boeing voted Monday to accept the company’s most recent offer, ending the costliest ...