{"id":206226,"date":"2025-04-26T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-shamu-boeing-737s\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:00:15","slug":"why-in-the-world-did-southwest-airlines-fly-2-boeing-737s-that-looked-like-a-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=206226","title":{"rendered":"Why In The World Did Southwest Airlines Fly 2 Boeing 737s That Looked Like A Whale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines worldwide have captured the public&#8217;s imagination with unique and creative liveries. However,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span>&#8216; Shamu livery has remained popular long after it was retired from the sky. But why did the Dallas-based low-cost carrier have several planes painted like a whale?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold attempt at aviation marketing, Southwest had two Boeing 737s painted to resemble SeaWorld&#8217;s iconic killer whale.<\/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":[396,13240,645,3079,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-southwest-airlines","category-special-livery","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206226","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=206226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206228,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206226\/revisions\/206228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}