{"id":404495,"date":"2026-04-13T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-international-flight-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:00:17","slug":"united-airlines-slashes-boeing-737-max-8-international-flights-by-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404495","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Slashes Boeing 737 MAX 8 International Flights By 16%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many major carriers around the world, the<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> 737 series plays a key role in United Airlines&#8217; day-to-day operations. When it comes to the next-generation 737 MAX family, according to data from ch-aviation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch-aviation.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >United flies both the MAX 8 and the MAX 9 variants<\/a>, with 123 and 146 examples in its fleet respectively. Going forward, the carrier plans to increase its MAX 9 sub-fleet by more than 50%, with outstanding orders for 77 more jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The type will, however, see increased usage on European routes.<\/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":[396,476,398,422,15477,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404495","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=404495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404496,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404495\/revisions\/404496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}