{"id":303810,"date":"2025-10-19T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/story-boeing-unreleased-long-range-737-max\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:30:16","slug":"the-story-behind-boeings-unreleased-long-range-737-max-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=303810","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind Boeing\u2019s Unreleased Long-Range 737 MAX Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over ten years ago, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> toyed with the idea of launching a long-range, narrowbody aircraft based on the 737 MAX 8. The aircraft would be known as the 737-8ERX, and its initial designs proved promising, with the US manufacturer hoping to carve out a niche in a growing market. However, as of 2025, the aircraft has not materialized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 737-8ERX was billed as the US manufacturer&#8217;s answer to the Airbus A321XLR.<\/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":[1778,396,398,422,718,16569,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a321xlr","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-max","category-manufacturers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303810","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=303810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303811,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303810\/revisions\/303811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}