{"id":261459,"date":"2025-08-04T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-fastest-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:00:17","slug":"this-is-southwest-airlines-fastest-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=261459","title":{"rendered":"This Is Southwest Airlines\u2019 Fastest Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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>, the world&#8217;s largest low-cost carrier, operates a fleet of all Boeing 737 family of aircraft, of which the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"177620\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-737-max\/\"  >737 MAX<\/a><\/span> is the fastest currently operating for the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-history\/\" >Dallas-based carrier<\/a>. The Boeing 737 MAX, of which Southwest operates over 250 of the MAX 8, cruises at around Mach 0.79 (530 knots or 609 mph or 980 km\/h), with a top speed of Mach 0.82 (541 knots or 623 mph or 1,003 km\/h). These figures were confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boeing.com\/commercial\/737max\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Boeing\u2019s official specifications.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top-speed revelation: Discover the power behind Southwest&#8217;s quickest jet.<\/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":[396,476,398,718,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-max","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261459","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=261459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261460,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261459\/revisions\/261460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}