{"id":197915,"date":"2025-04-09T17:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-retires-1st-boeing-737-900\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:42:18","slug":"alaska-airlines-retires-the-worlds-1st-boeing-737-900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=197915","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines Retires The World&#8217;s 1st Boeing 737-900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254956\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/alaska-airlines\/\"  >Alaska Airlines<\/a><\/span> bid farewell to what some might have considered the most important and beloved airframe in its fleet. Amidst its efforts to erase the original         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739418\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/737-900\/\"  >Boeing 737-900<\/a><\/span> variant from its operations, the Seattle-based carrier ferried the first-ever-produced airframe to Pinal Airpark (MZJ) in Arizona for retirement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airframe served as a testbed for the planemaker for three years.<\/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":[396,516,398,1496,13240,709,504,3509,550,11334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-alaska-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-900","category-commercial-aviation","category-fleet","category-fleet-history","category-retirement","category-seattle-tacoma-international-airport","category-testbed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197915","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=197915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197916,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197915\/revisions\/197916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}