Alaska Airlines said it will extend its cancellation of Boeing (NYSE:BA) 737 MAX 9 flights through Tuesday, Jan. 16, for planes that have been grounded since last week's mid-air cabin panel blowout.
Alaska has been cancelling about 20% of daily flights since Saturday after the grounding of its 65 MAX 9 planes. The fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland,