Canadian Travellers Should Check Connecting Flights After Grounding of Boeing Max 9

Published on January 8, 2024

Canadian air travellers will be largely unaffected by the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max 9 airplane, but they may want to double-check their itineraries all the same. Some passengers could be booked on routes affected by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration order, which grounded the Max 9 after part of the fuselage tore away from an Alaska Airlines plane on Jan. 5, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the cabin. The grounding left tens of thousands of passengers facing cancellations south of the border, with 171 planes temporarily barred from takeoff. No Canadian airlines operate the Max 9, but some of the big carriers have partnerships with Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, which both include the narrow-body jets among their fleets....