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We are going to review what is the current impact on flights in Ecuador due to the suspension of flight of the Boeing 737 MAX 9.
After the notorious and public events surrounding the incident of a MAX 9 from Alaska Airlines a few days ago and as the investigation, There are hundreds of MAX family planes that have been forced to remain on the ground until it is resolved, which caused a false emergency door to come loose. 16 thousand feet high.
Everything indicates that the review will take longer than expected, since still Boeing and FAA have not determined exactly the causes of this decompression event, so the initial forecast that they would be 8 hours by plane and what it would take to review the world fleet of this plane until this Wednesday it seems that it will not be fulfilled.
Affectation of flights in Ecuador due to 737 MAX 9
With this context, We must indicate that in Ecuador the airlines that operate airplanes MAX son: American Airlines, Arajet, Copa Airlines and Aeromexico, where only the last two have aircraft of the version 9 of the MAX.
Having said that, Our country has not been immune to flight disruptions and cancellations due to the mandatory grounding of most of these planes. (not everyone should stay on land), but it has generated that 26 planes, 21 from Cup are on land and in the case of Aeromexico all the 18 MAX 9 They remain on the ground awaiting further instructions.
At the moment, The following effects have been reported, be these because the plane that was operating was a MAX 9 or because the plane assigned to the route was rescheduled due to the contingency in another:
- Guayaquil: 37 canceled flights route from Panama.
- Quito: 33 canceled flights route from Panama.
- Quito: 1 canceled flight route from Mexico City.
Closing data 24 of January of 2024 – 16:00 Local Time have been totaled 71 canceled flights between Quito and Guayaquil by Copa Airlines and Aeromexico.
we will keep updating.
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