The door blowout happened aboard only one flight. But fallout from the ensuing safety crisis has inflated costs for those reliant on Boeing
A gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airline s Flight 1282, on Jan. 7.After a door panel on an Alaska Airline s-operated Boeing 737 Max 9 jet blew off mid-air in January, Anneke Palmerton learned the carrier had cancelled her flight to Orlando as well.
Boeing’s resulting slump in Max deliveries has hit earnings at airlines like Southwest and some suppliers who planned to equip new planes. It has inconvenienced and stranded passengers as airlines fly fewer routes, and has led to a slowdown in pilot hiring, interviews show. Economist Joseph Brusuelas estimates it cumulatively contributes $1-trillion a year to the U.S. economy and supports over 5 million jobs.
Ramp-up delays have some suppliers waiting to benefit from their investments. Montreal-area component supplier Meloche Group invested C$10-million this year to support higher demand, including that of the LEAP engines that power Max planes. Airlines prepare months in advance before putting a new aircraft in service. They hire and train pilots, and plan their network, incurring significant preparation and infrastructure costs. The aircraft delivery delays mean they can’t recover those costs.
That’s a dramatic reversal in fortune for its pilots, who barely six months back were so much in demand at rival carriers that the company was struggling to stabilize the attrition rate.
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