Southwest Airlines, the US carrier with the most Max jets, is canceling about 130 flights per day and calling off flights about 5 days ahead.
Airlines are preparing for more flight cancellations as Boeing readies a software fix for its best-selling 737 Max planes, following two fatal crashes of the aircraft that prompted regulators around the world to ground the plane.
Boeing late Sunday said it invited more than 200 airline pilots and regulators to Renton last Wednesday to “share more details about our plan for supporting the safe return of the 737 MAX to commercial service.” Scrutiny is mounting on the FAA’s certification of the planes and the anti-stall system Boeing added to the 737 Max planes before they debuted in 2017. That program, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, can automatically push the nose of the planes downward in order to avoid a stall in flight. Some pilots complained that they didn’t know the system existed until after the Lion Air crash.
Among Boeing’s changes include feeding the MCAS system with two angle-of-attack sensors instead of the current one. It would also limit the number of times the nose would automatically tilt downward if inaccurate data is received from the sensors, Boeing said.
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