Kayak is working on a feature that will allow users to remove specific airplane models from their searches, including the Boeing 737 Max (BKNG)

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• The travel website Kayak will introduce a feature this week that allows users to remove specific aircraft models from their searches.
• Kayak and other travel websites like Priceline, Expedia, Google Flights, Travelocity, and Orbitz, allow users to see which plane a flight will use, but do not yet allow for filtering based on aircraft model.
• The new feature follows an Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday that killed all 157 people onboard, the second in the last five months involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.

The travel website Kayak will introduce a feature this week that allows users to remove specific aircraft models from their searches.

"We’ve recently received feedback to make Kayak’s filters more granular in order to exclude particular aircraft models from search queries. We are releasing that enhancement this week and are committed to providing our customers with all the information they need to travel with confidence," a Kayak representative told Business Insider.

Read more: Germany, the UK, China, and other countries have grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 after its 2 deadly crashes — here’s who’s taken action so far

Kayak and other travel websites like Priceline, Expedia, Google Flights, Travelocity, and Orbitz allow users to see which plane a flight will use, but do not yet allow for filtering based on aircraft model.

The new feature follows an Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday that killed all 157 people onboard. The crash was the second in the last five months involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, following the October crash of a Lion Air flight that killed 189 people.

The European Union, China, and Australia have grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8, and while the Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that the aircraft is safe to fly, US lawmakers have urged the agency to reverse that evaluation.

• Read more:
• The Boeing 737 Max is embroiled in controversy after two deadly crashes in five months. Here’s how the plane came to be.
• Everything we know about Ethiopian Airlines’ deadly crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8, the second disaster involving the plane in 5 months
• Boeing’s CEO reportedly asked President Trump not to ground the company’s plane that has crashed twice in 5 months
• The Boeing 737 Max has come under fire after 2 deadly crashes in 5 months — but the aircraft is likely to be successful in the long-run, an aviation expert explains

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See Also:

• This map shows all the countries to ban the Boeing 737 Max 8, and where airlines have grounded their fleets, after Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157
• The Boeing 737 Max has come under fire after 2 deadly crashes in 5 months — but the aircraft is likely to be successful in the long-run, an aviation expert explains
• Europe has banned the Boeing 737 MAX — a plane that has crashed twice since October

SEE ALSO: Boeing’s software update to the 737 Max 8 was reportedly delayed more than a month because of the government shutdown

Source: Business Insider – mmatousek@businessinsider.com (Mark Matousek)