{"id":359720,"date":"2026-02-01T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airline-largest-boeing-737-max-fleet-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:00:17","slug":"which-airline-has-the-largest-boeing-737-max-fleet-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=359720","title":{"rendered":"Which Airline Has The Largest Boeing 737 MAX Fleet In 2026?"},"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> (WN) stands out not only for having the fourth-largest mainline fleet in the world (around 810 aircraft), but it <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2046664\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-southwest-airlines-large-boeing-737-ng-fleet-smaller\/\" >also has the world&#8217;s largest Boeing 737 family fleet<\/a><\/span>. The Boeing 737 fleet is the world&#8217;s largest MAX-generation fleet (all MAX 8s). The MAX 8 is Boeing&#8217;s mid-sized Boeing 737 MAX family aircraft with an advertised range of 3,500 nautical miles, up from the 737-800&#8217;s advertised 2,935 nautical mile range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest operates the largest fleet of MAX aircraft, an accolade it seems likely to retain for some time yet.<\/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":[396,476,938,5938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737-max-8","category-southwest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359720","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=359720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359721,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359720\/revisions\/359721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}