Southwest Airlines has extended cancellations of flights on Boeing’s 737 Max through March 2020, in the latest setback for the troubled plane since two crashes that killed 346 people.
Southwest, the largest operator of the 737 Max 8 jets, said on Friday it is now canceling flights through March 6 because of ‘continued uncertainty around the timing of Max return to service’ and added it is ‘unable to provide an update on first quarter capacity guidance at this time.’
Last month, Southwest had extended the grounding of all 34 737 Max jets in its fleet to February 8.
United Airlines and American Airlines have canceled their 737 Max flights into January.