The country’s two largest airlines said they are confident in the safety of the Boeing 737 Max 8 and will continue to fly them. “WestJet remains confident in the safety of our Boeing 737 fleet,” spokeswoman Morgan Bell said in an email. The Boeing jetliner is relatively new, entering into service at Air Canada and WestJet in 2017. Ethiopian Airlines as well as all Chinese and Indonesian airlines have grounded their Boeing 737 Max 8 planes indefinitely in the wake of the crash. The unions for Air Canada and WestJet flight crews declined to comment on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.

Source: thestar March 11, 2019 15:34 UTC