{"id":375506,"date":"2026-02-25T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-southwest-airlines-not-interested-boeing-737-ng\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:30:17","slug":"why-southwest-airlines-doesnt-want-its-boeing-737ngs-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=375506","title":{"rendered":"Why Southwest Airlines Doesn&#8217;t Want Its Boeing 737NGs Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines has become one of the world\u2019s largest airlines and budget carriers. Over the years, a loyal following emerged thanks to the fact that, even for its most basic fares, <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> offered passengers two free checked bags, no change or cancel fees, and a non-expiring flight credit. However, the airline has recently made some major changes to its pricing structure, including discontinuing free checked bags and introducing a requirement to pay for seating options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines is famous for operating only the Boeing 737 series.<\/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":[396,476,398,422,240,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-north-america","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375506","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=375506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375507,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375506\/revisions\/375507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}