The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association says its 9,900 members have lost about $115 million due to flight cuts caused by the Max grounding.
Dawn GilbertsonSouthwest Airlines' pilots union is suing Boeing for damages caused by the prolonged grounding of the Boeing 737 Max, saying a steep reduction in flights has cost pilots an estimated $115 million in compensation.
The airline has an all-Boeing fleet and was announced as a launch customer for the Max in 2011. Southwest took delivery of its first Max in 2017 and had 34 in its fleet when the plane was grounded March 13 after two fatal crashes in less than five months. The preliminary investigations of the crashes of Lion Air and Ethiopian Airllines that killed 346 people zeroed in on a new automated control system with which pilots were unfamiliar. Last week, the National Transportation Safety Board said the system didn't allow pilots to easily understand what was happening in a critical situation, and recommended that the federal government require Boeing redesign the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, so it is more intuitive.
The Max grounding has caused Southwest to cancel more than 30,000 flights since March, according to the lawsuit. Southwest Chief Financial Officer Tammy Romo has previously said the airline's seat capacity will be down 8% from original expectations at the end of the year because of the Max grounding. In addition to the 34 Max aircraft Southwest had when the plane was grounded, the airline expected another 41 to be delivered and had built its flight schedule around that.
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