Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Southwest Airlines said Thursday it has pulled the grounded Boeing 737 Max aircraft from its flight schedule until early June in a proactive effort to avoid last-minute flight cancellations.
Southwest, which exclusively uses Boeing 737 aircraft, had previously planned to restore the Max after April 13, but the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration still has given no firm timeline for lifting its order grounding the model following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people within five months in 2018 and 2019.