{"id":301278,"date":"2025-10-14T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-southwest-airlines-rely-smallest-boeing-737-700-variant\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:00:29","slug":"why-does-southwest-airlines-rely-so-much-on-the-smallest-boeing-737-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301278","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Southwest Airlines Rely So Much On The Smallest Boeing 737 Variant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very few airlines continue to operate the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3507971\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737-700<\/span><\/span> today, primarily because the jet is an outdated model which offers relatively low capacity and weaker seat economics than other members of the Boeing 737 family. <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>, however, is a major exception to this rule. The carrier relies heavily on the Boeing 737-700 for a handful of reasons, starting with the fact that it offers the ideal sweet-spot gauge for the airline&#8217;s high-frequency, medium-haul network. The lightweight and nimble member of the Boeing 737 family preserves the airline&#8217;s single-type efficiency (as it only operates Boeing 737s) and its performance on short fields also makes it exceptionally valuable to the airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 737-700 is a core piece of Southwest&#8217;s fleet.<\/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":[396,476,1041,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","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\/301278","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=301278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301279,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301278\/revisions\/301279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}