United Airlines says Boeing Alaska blowout cost it $200m
United Airlines says Boeing Alaska blowout cost it $200m
The firm had to ground its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet after a mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight.
United Airlines has blamed Boeing for a $200m (£161m) hit to its earnings in the first three months of this year.
The carrier was forced to ground its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet for three weeks after a mid-air cabin blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
United said that pushed it to a pre-tax loss of $164m for the first quarter.
Regardless of what you think of rich ass corporations, this is an important liability issue. United shouldn't be on the hook for losing money when it was Boeing's fault
Then they should.sue Boeing like any other business. Picking a faulty vendor means sorting it out with the vendor.
What does the contract say?
All I hear us how much United Airlines makes in earnings in 3 weeks on a slice of their business.
United Airlines says their shitty choice of vendor cost them $200M - FTFY
Because there's so many to choose from?
Airbus is the only notable competitor in this class of aircraft, IIRC.
Alaskan Airlines as well. They kept getting pressure cabin alerts, never finding the problem, and just resetting the warning system. They even went so far as to instruct that this plane was not to go over water so it could land if it had an issue.
The door plug is absolutely on Boeing but AA was negligent on how it handled the warning it got multiple times before the blowout happened.
Was the door plug issue all of Boeing's fault though? The airline doesn't have any inspectors itself?
Boeing wrote the service manuals and maintainance schedule. If the airline was supposed to do a test to catch the mistake but didn't, boeing would mention it.
A door plug is part of the fuselage, and it is hidden behind wall panels. An airline isn't expected to disassemble the entire interior to check the structure upon taking delivery of the plane.
The pressure fault the plane had before the blowout wouldn't have lead to a check of the door plug even if it had gotten the service before the blowout.
There are like a million bolts on a plane, and not all are easily accessed or listed as things to check on regular maintenance. It sounds like these were not easily accessible.or seen and not something that would be regularly checked.
Like how a lot of bolts on cars and trains and aubways are not readily accessible or checked before the vehicle is put into seevice becsuse it is assumed that the factory's quality control took care of them.