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Passengers board the first Ethiopian Airlines flight on a Boeing 737 MAX since a crash nearly three years ago killed all 157 people on board and triggered the global grounding of the aircraft. IMAGES
Delta Air Lines reportedly cancelled 325 flights in the days leading up to Christmas. Christmas was the busiest travel season of the pandemic. A perfect storm of bad weather and a lack of pilots forced Delta to cancel the flights over a three-day period starting December 23. Business Insider reports Thanksgiving similarly saw over 600 flight cancellations at the airline. The cancellations reveal a trend of poor performance for Delta during the holidays.
Gizmodo reports that American Airlines announced on Thursday that will not serve alcohol on flights out of Washington D.C. This comes after viral videos went showed passengers being verbally abusive while traveling into D.C. for President Trump’s neo-fascist rally. The drink ban is one of many measure that the airline is considering after Wednesday's deadly attack on the Capitol, which left four people dead. American Airlines said "At American, safety is our highest priority. We are working closely with local law enforcement and airport authority partners to ensure the safety of our customers and team members on the ground and in the air.” Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) International said “The mob mentality behavior that took place on several flights to the D.C. area yesterday was unacceptable and threatened the safety and security of every single person onboard."
REUTERS/Mike Blake LUV Southwest Airlin 46.03 -0.22 (-0.48 %) Disclaimer Get real-time LUV charts here " Southwest Airlines said Wednesday that it plans to fly passengers on the Boeing 737 Max again in March. CEO Gary Kelly had previously said the jet's first flight would "likely take place no sooner than the second quarter of 2021." Southwest will receive 35 more jets in 2021, more than doubling its current pre-grounding fleet of Max aircraft. Passengers looking to avoid the jet will be allowed to make free changes, but Southwest says it reserves the right to use the Max for any flight.
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