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  Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) forecasts it will exceed 2019 passenger traffic in 2024 and record its busiest year ever, following up on 2023, when international traffic levels edged over 2019 figures and domestic traffic fell just short of pre-pandemic levels. Overall, the airport handled 50.9 million passengers in 2023, up 11% over 2022, but

MEXICO CITY (AP) — At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behavior aboard airplanes. The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a statement Friday that a man had opened an emergency exit and walked out on a wing of a plane that was parked and waiting for takeoff Thursday. The airport said

By  Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter The fuselage panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet earlier this month was removed for repair then reinstalled improperly by Boeing mechanics on the Renton final assembly line, a person familiar with the details of the work told The Seattle Times. If verified by the National Transportation

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 aircraft similar to the one that lost a nose wheel as it prepared to take off from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Saturday.Credit…Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto, via Getty Images By Orlando Mayorquin A Boeing 757 plane operated by Delta Air Lines lost a nose wheel as it prepared to take

By  Andy Pasztor Special to The Seattle Times Probes of the recent Boeing 737 MAX cabin blowout must expand far beyond safety practices and manufacturing controls. Investigators should scrutinize persistent company failures over the past four decades to become more transparent and law-abiding. Before this month’s cabin blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet

By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter While Boeing’s leadership scrambled to contain its latest crisis — following the in-flight door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 — top executives at Airbus confidently laid out the rival’s success in 2023 and its dominance of the commercial airliner business. The data on last year’s jet

By  The Seattle Times editorial board Boeing is in the region’s collective DNA. Even though the company decamped for Chicago in 2001 and is now headquartered in a corporate suburb of Washington, D.C., Boeing still has a special place in our consciousness that goes beyond its statewide workforce of about 60,000. Call it pride. Pride

Robert Reich Friends, My friend Harold Meyerson just wrote this for The American Prospect, and it’s so good and timely that I wanted to share it with you. In the wake of the midair blowout of a door on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 earlier this month, the lead that Airbus has taken over Boeing

The aftermath of the Alaska blowout reveals that the connection is slowly unraveling. By Benjamin Cassidy  January 17, 2024 IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH of the fuselage blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this month, Margaret O’Mara noticed something that would’ve once been unthinkable in Seattle. The University of Washington history professor observed that locals were correctly tying

News Provided By Washington State House Democrats January 17, 2024, 22:27 GMT OLYMPIA — Legislators, local elected officials, and community members gathered at a press conference Monday to demand economic and social justice for people living near Sea-Tac Airport. Speakers supported legislation (SB 5955/HB 2103) to direct a small portion of Port of Seattle revenue as