{"id":202352,"date":"2025-04-19T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-oldest-boeing-737-flying\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:00:16","slug":"united-airlines-oldest-boeing-737-still-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=202352","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines&#8217; Oldest Boeing 737 Still Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While airlines worldwide have vigorous fleet replacement programs, this does not always mean their aircraft are destined for the scrap heap. Usually, the aircraft will be leased or sold to another airline.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines&#8217;<\/span><\/span> oldest Boeing 737s are several         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739416\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/737-700\/\"  >737-700s<\/a><\/span> inherited from its merger with Continental Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airline currently has over 25 aircraft older than 25 years of age<\/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":[396,398,422,13240,1970,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-commercial-aviation","category-oldest-aircraft","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202352","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=202352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202353,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202352\/revisions\/202353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}