Canadian travellers' flight check: How to determine if you're booked on a Boeing 737 Max 8
Despite international pressure Canadian airlines Westjet and Air Canada continue to operate their fleets of Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, the same type of aircraft involved in two crashes that killed 346 people in a span of five months.
The ‘details’ tab on the Air Canada website will tell you the aircraft type you’ll be flying on, clicking ‘flight details’ on the WestJet website will bring up a page showing the aircraft code.Air Canada has a “flexible rebooking policy” for customers who do not want to fly on the 737 Max 8. “Air Canada follows and implements recommendations and advisories from manufacturers and governmental safety regulators. This includes, previous 737 Max bulletins reinforcing existing procedures which all Air Canada crew were already trained on.”
Five months earlier, the same model of aircraft flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air plunged into the ocean and killed 189 people.“We have flown five different variants of the Boeing 737 since 1996, and the fleet currently operates around 450 safe daily B737 departures,” the airline said.
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