Boeing has cancelled a conference call it had scheduled for Tuesday morning with airlines to discuss systems on the 737 MAX model that crashed in Indonesia last month, two sources familiar with the matter said. “Boeing has been - and continues to engage with our customers. We continue to schedule meetings to share information,” Boeing said. It was not clear whether the call was being rescheduled. A third person familiar with the matter said Tuesday’s conference call was one of a series of routine technical meetings that Boeing holds with airline operators in various regions of the world. All 189 people on board a 737 MAX operated by Lion Air died when the jet crashed into the Java Sea on Oct. 29.<br/>
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Russian investigators are probing an accident in which a departing aircraft fatally struck a person on the runway at Moscow Sheremetyevo. Moscow’s regional transport division of the federal Investigative Committee said the Boeing 737 was taking off on a service to Athens at around 20:10 local time on 20 November. It says a man, 25, was struck by the undercarriage of the jet and suffered fatal injuries. “At present, an inquiry team is working at the scene, and investigative actions are being carried out to establish all the circumstances and causes of the incident,” it adds. While it has not identified the operator involved, the time of the accident coincides with the departure of an Aeroflot 737-800 operating the SU2112 service to Athens. The jet took off on runway 24L. There is no indication as to whether the crew was aware of the situation, but the flight proceeded to Greece.<br/>
Thanksgiving travellers got help from favourable weather in most of the US Tuesday, but flight delays piled up at airports around the country by day's end. Wet and frigid forecasts threaten to made driving more challenging in the next day or two. By late Tuesday afternoon, fewer than 150 US flights had been cancelled — a low number all things considered. But 3,000 flights were delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware. The largest number of delays — about 400 — was at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where dense fog slowed the pace of departures and arrivals. Flights going to Boston and Newark, New Jersey, were also more likely to be delayed, according to the FAA. So were flights to San Francisco, where visibility has been reduced due to smoke from the wildfire in Paradise, California. Looking at a longer, 12-day period, the airline industry trade group Airlines for America predicts that a record 30.6m people will fly on US carriers, up from 29m last year. That's more than 2.5m per day. The airline group expects that Wednesday will be the second busiest day of the holiday period behind only Sunday, when many travelers will be returning home.<br/>
AirAsia is set to move its international operations from Terminal 3 to Terminal 2 at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport starting on Dec. 12 at 3 a.m. local time. The airline said Monday that flights for all of AirAsia’s domestic and international routes will soon operate from Terminal 2. This move is not expected to affect the carrier's flight schedule. However, passengers are advised to check in on the airasia.com website or mobile app and print their boarding pass prior to leaving for the airport, as well as arriving at the airport three hours prior to scheduled departure.<br/>