{"id":445138,"date":"2026-06-04T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-southwest-airlines-boeing-737-fleet-premium-cabins-impossible-profit-from\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:00:19","slug":"why-southwest-airlines-boeing-737-fleet-makes-premium-cabins-almost-impossible-to-profit-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=445138","title":{"rendered":"Why Southwest Airlines&#8217; Boeing 737 Fleet Makes Premium Cabins Almost Impossible To Profit From"},"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> has spent much of the last two years trying to convince investors that it can evolve beyond the low-cost formula that made it successful for decades. Assigned seating, extra-legroom rows, and discussions about lounges and premium products all suggest an airline searching for higher-margin revenue streams at a moment when the broader US airline industry is becoming increasingly dependent on premium travelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blue-liveried budget carrier famously operates an all-Boeing 737 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":[396,398,422,718,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-max","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445138","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=445138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445139,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445138\/revisions\/445139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}