{"id":290911,"date":"2025-09-25T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-southwest-airlines-large-boeing-737-ng-fleet-smaller\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:00:16","slug":"why-southwest-airlines-large-boeing-737-ng-fleet-is-getting-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=290911","title":{"rendered":"Why Southwest Airlines\u2019 Large Boeing 737 NG Fleet Is Getting Smaller"},"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> is by far the world&#8217;s largest operator of the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254988\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737<\/span><\/span>, currently operating a staggering 810 examples of the aircraft across three different variants &#8211; the 737-700, 737-800, and 737 MAX 8. In fact, the 737 is the only aircraft type operated by the low-cost carrier. However, the carrier is now reducing the number of 737 NGs (737-700s and 737-800s) in its fleet, with the goal of retiring them completely by 2031.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The low-cost carrier is the world&#8217;s largest operator of the Boeing 737.<\/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":[396,476,422,829,1041,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-800","category-low-cost-carrier","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290911","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=290911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290912,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290911\/revisions\/290912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}