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Summary List PlacementBoeing's most notorious aircraft is having a great start to March with two milestones to kick off the month.  Alaska Airlines began passenger service with the Boeing 737 Max on Monday after a long-delayed start. Flight AS482 departed to San Diego from the airline's hub in Seattle in the early morning hours of the day and arrived without issue before departing back...

Summary List PlacementThe Boeing 737 Max will fly paying passengers in the US for the first time in 21 months next week as American Airlines is set to fly the first scheduled flight from Miami to New York on December 29.  American is arguably the most eager US airline to get the ill-fated jet back in the air, beating out rivals United Airlines, Alaska...

Summary List PlacementBoeing officials "inappropriately coached" government pilots during a simulator test to ensure that the company's 737 Max plane was safe to fly again, after two deadly crashes involving the model killed 346 people, Senate investigators said in a report Friday. Some pilots of the Federal Aviation Administration, who went through the simulation, were prompted by Boeing to get ready to use the...

Summary List Placement After Boeing notified airlines in late August of manufacturing issues with some of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft stemming from quality-control issues during production, eight planes were grounded as a result. Now, the Federal Aviation Administration is stepping in to investigate potential defects in the aircraft program's production, the Wall Street Journal's Andrew Tangel and Andy Pasztor reported on Monday. Two issues...

Boeing Global Services, the company's standard bulwark against demand drops and other problems lost $672 million in the second quarter — a major contributor to a total loss of $2.4 billion. Demand for the maintenance business collapsed as airlines grounded many of their planes and cut costs to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Services was a bright spot back in 2019 as Boeing's...

Shares of Boeing gained 24% Wednesday.  The gains were fueled by investor optimism that a coronavirus relief package will soon be approved and that the airline industry would be a beneficiary.  The Senate bill would provide $58 billion in relief for US airlines, split between payroll grants for workers and loans to the airlines themselves. The bill also includes $17 billion to assist companies...

Automation in planes — taking control of flight systems from pilots and putting it in the hands of machines — has steadily increased in recent decades. Two crashes involving Boeing's 737 Max that killed 346 people were both attributed largely to MCAS, the plane's automated system designed to keep it level in the sky. Business Insider spoke with aviation experts and former plane-safety officials...

Airbus is planning on delivering its highest-ever number of planes in 2020, while its biggest rival Boeing continues to falter in the aftermath of two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max planes. Airbus also announced its plans to increase its production of A320neo planes, which is the main competitor to the Max. But the benefits Boeing's problems bring Airbus are limited by the fact...

Southwest Airlines reported fourth quarter and full 2019 earnings following a tumultuous year without its flagship plane, the Boeing 737 Max. The airline is the biggest customer of the 737 Max, and was supposed to have 75 by the end of 2019. Although profits and capacity fell, and headwinds look poised to continue well into 2020, there were still a few bright points, including...

Boeing safely landed its first CST-100 Starliner spaceship, named "Calypso," in New Mexico on Sunday. No astronauts flew aboard the Starliner. The mission was designed to show the vehicle, which NASA funded through its Commercial Crew Program, is safe to fly astronauts. But the Starliner suffered a major glitch with a clock shortly after launch, causing it to veer off-course. Boeing rescued the mission,...

Boeing announced on Monday that David Calhoun would become the aerospace company's CEO and president effective January 13 after the firing of former CEO Dennis Muilenburg. Calhoun had been the chairman of Boeing's board of directors, on which he had served since 2009, and was a senior managing director at Blackstone, leading that firm's private-equity-portfolio-operations division. Before working at Blackstone, Calhoun was the CEO...

Boeing launched its new CST-100 Starliner spaceship for NASA astronauts into orbit for the first time on Friday, though the maiden flight suffered a major glitch. The uncrewed vehicle was supposed to dock with the International Space Station on Saturday morning. However, the Starliner began flying wildly off-course shortly after separating from its rocket ride. Officials couldn't immediately say what happened, but a clock...

Boeing has announced that it will temporarily halt production of the 737 Max plane. The plane has been grounded by the FAA for almost a year following two major crashes. Boeing announced that it would not be making any layoffs as a result of this decision and that employees would instead be redirected to other tasks. However, there is now an increasing backlog of...

Boeing announced on Monday that it will temporarily suspend production of the 737 Max, as the plane remains grounded into 2020. The company said the 12,000 employees at its Renton, WA factory, where the Max is built, would not face layoffs or furloughs "at this time," and would be reassigned to other tasks. However, almost 600 suppliers manufacture components for the plane. Those companies,...

Qantas has chosen the Airbus A350-1000, with slight modifications, for its two Project Sunrise routes, which will be the longest flights in the world. The airline hopes to launch the nonstop flights from Sydney to New York and London by 2023. Airbus beat Boeing's 777X for the order. The 777X series has faced numerous delays. Business Insider was aboard the first of two Project...

FAA head Steve Dickson is testifying before a House transportation committee hearing about the Boeing 737 Max on Wednesday. A former Boeing employee turned whistleblower, Edward Pierson, is also scheduled to appear at Wednesday's hearing, along with others. We'll be updating this story throughout the hearing — refresh this page for updates. Sign up for Business Insider's transportation newsletter, Shifting Gears, to get more...

A former Boeing senior manager said he tried to flag the 737 Max's production issues to the company's executives and three government agencies, but was ignored by all of them, The New York Times and NBC News reported. Ed Pierson told the two outlets that employees at the company's Washington state factory were overworked and made mistakes as a result. He had raised concerns...

Boeing's chief engineer overseeing commercial airplanes including the 737 Max is retiring, according to the Seattle Times. John Hamilton has been heading up Boeing's response to the two fatal 737 Max crashes. Boeing said that he initially planned to retire last year. Hamilton testified alongside CEO Dennis Muilenburg in front of two Congressional panels last month. Sign up for Business Insider's transportation newsletter, Shifting Gears,...