{"id":280674,"date":"2025-09-09T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-nigeria-airlines-double-fleet-acquisition-ex-southwest-boeing-737-800s\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:30:16","slug":"united-nigeria-airlines-will-double-its-fleet-with-acquisition-of-ex-southwest-boeing-737-800s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280674","title":{"rendered":"United Nigeria Airlines Will Double Its Fleet With Acquisition Of Ex-Southwest Boeing 737-800s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"509674\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-nigeria-airlines\/\"  >United Nigeria Airlines<\/a><\/span> (UNA) is set to rapidly expand its fleet through the acquisition of six ex-Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 jets, with further purchase options for four more aircraft. This move would potentially triple the small carrier&#8217;s fleet from just five jets to 15. This agreement, which was brokered by SkyWorks, is a key piece of Elliott Management&#8217;s push for Southwest Airlines to sell older Boeing 737-800 jets in favor of streamlining the airline&#8217;s fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier is making some impressive moves.<\/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":[396,672,2963,18067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-development","category-nigeria","category-united-nigeria-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280674","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=280674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280950,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280674\/revisions\/280950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}