Alaska Airlines CEO “frustrated and disappointed” at Boeing  

Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci has expressed his frustration and disappointment at Boeing in the wake of the explosive decompression of Flight 1282, adding that Alaska teams have found “many” loose bolts during inspections of the airline’s grounded 737 MAX-9 aircraft. Speaking exclusively to senior correspondent Tom Costello of NBC News, Minicucci elaborated: “It makes you mad that we’re finding issues like that on brand new airplanes,” adding that “Boeing is better than this – flight 1282 should never have happened”. Alaska Airlines is the second single largest operator of the affected configuration of MAX-9, which remains grounded by the