The Seattle resident booked with Alaska Airlines last March, purposefully selecting a flight with a plane he was happy to board – essentially, anything but a Boeing 737 Max. I said, ‘I wasn’t supposed to fly the Max.’ She was like, ‘What do you know about the Max?,’” he said. The 737 MAX family’s in-service reliability is above 99% and consistent with other commercial airplane models.”Of course, many thousands of people board Max aircraft with no concerns. Shortly after the Alaska Airlines fuselage blowout, she was scheduled on a Max for a work flight. Following the January 5 incident, Alaska and United – the US carriers which use the Max 9 – issued waivers allowing passengers unwilling to fly the Max flexibility.
