Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes

Kayak customers can exclude Max 9 aircraft after cabin panel blowout on Alaska Airlines flight

A leading online travel agent has added filters to let users exclude flights that use Boeing’s troubled 737 Max planes, after a piece of fuselage falling off an Alaska Airlines flight led to a surge of user interest in avoiding the airliners.

Kayak first introduced an aircraft filter in March 2019, to add and exclude specific models of plane, but the company says it saw little use compared with the more prominent filters of the number of stops or airports.