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Alaska Airlines cancels 170 flights after FAA's orderThe airline expects additional significant cancellations through the first half of the week, it said on Sunday.
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<div class="paragraphs"><p>Passengers try to rebook their tickets from cancelled United Airlines flights after US air safety regulator the Federal Aviation Administration  grounded 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks because of the emergency landing of an Alaska Airlines plane, at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico January 7, 2024. </p></div>

Passengers try to rebook their tickets from cancelled United Airlines flights after US air safety regulator the Federal Aviation Administration grounded 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks because of the emergency landing of an Alaska Airlines plane, at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico January 7, 2024.

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Alaska Airlines said it has canceled 170 Sunday flights affecting nearly 25,000 guests, a move after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered grounding of 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes to run inspections.

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The airline expects additional significant cancellations through the first half of the week, it said on Sunday.

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(Published 08 January 2024, 06:01 IST)