The union representing pilots at Southwest Airlines Co. sued Boeing Co., alleging that the plane maker rushed its 737 MAX jet to market and misrepresented the plane as safe. The nearly 10,000 Southwest pilots represented by the union say that they are losing millions of dollars a month as the grounding stretches on. In the case of the 737 MAX, that absolutely did not happen,” Jon Weaks, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, or Swapa, said in a statement about the lawsuit. Without those planes, the airline has had to cancel some 30,000 flights, the pilots union said. Southwest pilots have claimed that this has meant fewer opportunities to fly and earn money, costing them more than $100 million collectively.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 07, 2019 22:41 UTC