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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Unsettling details continue to arise about Boeing's 737 Max and now Congress is pressing the FAA and America's largest manufacturing exporter for answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Andrew McIntosh your report on aviation for the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle,

0:34.5

Washington.

0:35.5

We talked to you a few weeks ago.

0:36.7

It was just after President Trump grounded all of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in the

0:43.5

United States.

0:44.5

A lot has happened since then with Boeing and the Max 8 and the FAA.

0:48.9

Can you walk us through it all?

0:50.5

Where do we start?

0:51.9

Well, we start with the chaos for the airlines.

0:58.1

With all those airplanes glued to the ground, they had to scramble and they had to secure

1:05.0

alternative airplanes because they are preparing for what is their biggest time of the year.

1:11.9

Christmas?

1:12.9

And that is the summer holidays.

1:14.9

Oh, got it.

1:15.9

You've seen just Southwest Airlines has taken 34 Max's from all over the country and

1:23.8

park them in the desert in Victorville, California while this whole mess gets sorted out.

1:29.4

How much is the costing the airlines and the aviation industry?

1:33.4

Well, Southwest alone put a cost of about 50 million dollars on its first quarter revenues.

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