© Reuters. United Airways planes are parked at their gates at O’Hare Worldwide Airport forward of the Thanksgiving vacation in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 20, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is contemplating measures to curb progress at United Airways, together with stopping the provider from including new routes, following a collection of security incidents, Bloomberg Information reported on Saturday.
The regulator has mentioned non permanent actions it might take with the airline’s management in current days, Bloomberg stated, citing folks with information of the matter.
United additionally could also be barred from flying paying prospects on newly delivered plane, the report stated.
“The FAA’s security assurance system routinely displays all facets of an airline’s operation,” the company stated in an announcement on Saturday.
United didn’t reply to a Reuters request for remark.
U.S. security regulators will enhance scrutiny of United after a number of current security incidents, the Chicago-based airline stated on Friday.
On March 15, an exterior panel was discovered to be lacking from a United plane when it landed in Oregon, prompting an FAA investigation. Earlier than that, a Boeing (NYSE:) 737 MAX in its fleet rolled onto the grass in Houston. A United-operated Boeing 777-200 certain for Japan misplaced a tire after takeoff from San Francisco and was diverted to Los Angeles, the place it landed safely.
United’s company security vice chairman, Sasha Johnson, stated in a memo that over the subsequent a number of weeks staff will see extra of a presence by the FAA “in our operation as they start to evaluation a few of our work processes, manuals and services.”
