Airlines Vow to Hold Boeing ‘Accountable’ Over Quality Issues as Carrier Warns of $150 Million Loss

Multiple major airlines vowed this week to hold plane maker Boeing accountable following the grounding of 737-9 MAX planes earlier this month. Chief executives at American Airlines and Alaska Airlines made the comments after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded all of the jets worldwide earlier this month in the wake of a mid-air incident on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 that raised major safety concerns. “We’re going to hold them accountable. Boeing needs to get their act together,” American Airlines Chief Executive Robert Isom told analysts during a conference call on Jan. 25, Bloomberg reported. “The issues they’ve been dealing with, and going back some years now, is unacceptable.”...