FAA relents, says it grounded 737 Max jets based on new data

March 14, 2019 Leave a comment

As country after country grounded Boeing's 737 Max jets after a deadly crash Sunday in Ethiopia, U.S. air safety regulators remained resolute in their refusal to do so — until Wednesday.

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Southwest grapples with new labor and revenue problems

February 20, 2019 Leave a comment

FILE- In this Jan. 25, 2019, file photo a Southwest Airlines jet moves on the runway as a person eats at a terminal restaurant at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Southwest Airlines is lashing out at the union representing its mechanics and suggesting that workers are purposely grounding planes to gain leverage in negotiations over a new contract. Southwest had canceled more than 400 flights, 10 percent of its schedule, by midmorning Wednesday, Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Southwest Airlines is lashing out at the union representing its mechanics, suggesting that they are purposely grounding planes in order to gain leverage in new contract negotiations.

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Southwest Airlines plans maintenance facility at BWI Marshall

September 21, 2018 Leave a comment

Southwest Airlines plans to build its first aircraft maintenance facility in the northeast in Maryland.

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Southwest Airlines says passengers are slow to return after Flight 1380 death

June 4, 2018 Leave a comment

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Southwest Airline's first passenger fatality is still costing the company money and expected to drag down sales well into the summer travel season.

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Pickup truck strikes Southwest plane at BWI Marshall airport

May 7, 2018 Leave a comment

Passengers on board a Southwest Airlines flight from Florida say a pickup truck hit their plane on the runway at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

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For survivors of Southwest engine explosion, what comes next?

April 19, 2018 Leave a comment

National Transportation Safety Board investigators examine damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on Tuesday. While Southwest has said it will work with victims’ families, that may not preclude litigation down the road, although the precedent for liability based on emotional trauma or non-serious injuries is ambiguous. (NTSB via Associated Press)

Being on an airplane more than six miles in the air when an engine blows up and sends shrapnel through a window is an experience so scary that aviation lawyers say it's not just the family of the woman killed on a Southwest flight this week who could have a case.

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Southwest rushes engine checks amid first-of-its-kind crisis

April 18, 2018 Leave a comment

Southwest Airlines Co. is stepping up engine inspections as the discount carrier known for its quirky cheerfulness and strong safety record grapples with its first accident to result in a passenger’s death. Ultrasonic examinations of the fan blades on its ...

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Southwest to hold 2018 shareholder meeting in Annapolis

April 13, 2018 Leave a comment

The annual meeting's location is a sign of Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s hub status for the airline.

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Police drag woman off Southwest Airlines flight at BWI

September 27, 2017 Leave a comment

Southwest is apologizing to a woman who was physically removed from a plane by police officers in the latest airline video to go viral. A Southwest Airlines spokesman said Wednesday that the woman said she had a life-threatening pet allergy ...