{"id":426767,"date":"2026-05-13T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lot-polish-airlines-boeing-737-max-legal-battle\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:39:07","slug":"lot-polish-airlines-takes-boeing-to-court-despite-still-flying-26-737-max-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=426767","title":{"rendered":"LOT Polish Airlines Takes Boeing To Court Despite Still Flying 26 737 MAX Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last few years have been a challenging time for<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span>, with the US planemaker most notably having to contend with a 20-month grounding period for its new 737 MAX narrowbody twinjet series after two fatal accidents in 2018 and 2019 that bore striking parallels. Now, the manufacturer has been taken to court by one of its own customers, LOT Polish Airlines, which, despite operating many 737 MAX jets, wishes to highlight Boeing&#8217;s deceit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parties involved in the trial made their opening statements yesterday at the US District Court in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,398,422,718,1965,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-max","category-lot-polish-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426769,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426767\/revisions\/426769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}