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"The Boeing 737-800 jet carrying 120 passengers that crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday raises questions about an aircraft that’s become ubiquitous in U.S. airline fleets.

The airline operating the flight, China Eastern, said it will

ground all of its Boeing 737-800

jets starting Tuesday. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement it was monitoring the crash and would issue updates on Twitter.

Which airlines fly Boeing 737-800?

Nearly all of the major airlines operating in the U.S. fly the aircraft. There are 4,500 of the jets in service globally. A FlightAware.com search showed dozens, if not hundreds, of Boeing 737-800 jets in the air worldwide on Monday morning.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines had 207 of the planes and Fort Worth-headquartered American Airlines had 267 as of the end of 2021, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Delta Airlines had 77 in total, and United had 141 of the aircraft.

American flies the most of the jets as a portion of its overall fleet. Nearly one-third of its planes are 737-800 jets.

Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines do not operate Boeing aircraft.

Southwest Airlines said in a statement it was “closely monitoring the situation for more details.”

3-25-2022

“Southwest Airlines sends deepest condolences to China Eastern Airlines and the families, employees, loved ones and all affected by today’s event,” the company said.

The Federal Aviation Administration shared that it is aware of the incident in China.

“The agency is ready to assist in investigation efforts if asked,” the agency said.

American Airlines did not respond to The Dallas Morning News’ requests for comment."

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McAllen area, just North of Reynosa, MX

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McAllen, Texas: Cloudflare opens 119th Data Center just north of the Mexico border

12/11/2017

Five key facts to know about McAllen, Texas

McAllen, Texas is on the southern tip of the Rio Grande Valley

The city is named after John McAllen, who provided land in 1904 to bring the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway railway into the area

McAllen, Texas is named the City of Palms

The border between Mexico and the USA is less than nine miles away from the data center

McAllen, Texas is where Cloudflare has placed its 119th data center

Second datacenter in Texas; first on the border with Mexico

While McAllen is close to the Mexican border, its importance goes well beyond that simple fact. The city is halfway between Dallas, Texas (where Cloudflare has an existing datacenter) and Mexico City, the center and capital of Mexico. This means that any Cloudflare traffic delivered into Mexico is better served from McAllen. Removing 500 miles from the latency equation is a good thing. 500 miles equates to around 12 milliseconds of round-trip latency and when a connection operates (as all connections should), as a secure connection, then there can be many round trip communications before the first page starts showing up. Improving latency is key, even if we have a 0-RTT environment.

However, it gets better! A significant amount of Mexican Cloudflare traffic is delivered to ISPs and telcos that are just south of the Mexican border, hence McAllen improves their performance even more-so. Cloudflare chose the McAllen Data Center in order to provide those ISPs and telcos a local interconnect point.

Talking of interconnection - what’s needed is a solid IXP footprint

As astute readers of the Cloudflare blog know, the Cloudflare network interconnects to a large number of Internet Exchanges globally. Why should that be any different in McAllen, Texas. It’s not. As of last week, there was a brand new Internet Exchange (IX) in McAllen, Texas.

MEX-IX is that new IX and it provides a whole new way to interconnect with Mexican carriers, many of which are present in McAllen already. Cloudflare will enable peering on that IX as quickly as we can.

Next up, we go south!

Cloudflare has plenty of datacenter presence in South America, however Panama is the only datacenter we have operating within Central America. That means that we still have to work on Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

But there’s one more place we need to deploy into in order to move the Mexican story forward and that’s Mexico City. More about that in a later blog.

Cloudflare will continue to build new datacenters, including the ones south of the border, and ones around the globe. If you enjoy the idea of helping build one of the world's largest networks, come join our team!

https://blog.cloudflare.com/mcallen/

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