With the airline having a major stake in the outcome of the government mandate and potential changes to the MAX 7 cockpit, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association or SWAPA went public in October to request that the MAX 7 and MAX 10 models receive a waiver from the government's new requirement to have the new alerting system installed. This deadline required Boeing to have any new variants certified by the year's end or else require modifications to its cockpit alerting system - modifications which would have introduced differences between the in-service MAX 8 and MAX 9 variants. With all this in mind, it's quite likely that fleet numbers will have changed slightly by the time you read this article.įor much of 2022, the MAX 7 - and its big brother, the MAX 10 - have been in a precarious situation, with a certification deadline looming. Indeed, Southwest added just nine jets in November and four in October. The airline took delivery of 16 aircraft over the course of December 2022 which represents an impressive rate of roughly one new aircraft every two days! However, when comparing months, December was on the higher end, and we can't expect this rate every month. The number of -800s remained the same, but overall, we can see that the carrier had a net increase in aircraft. Looking at these numbers and comparing them with our "fleet in 2022" examination in early-February 2022, we can see that the airline removed 29 -700s over the past year, but also added 73 MAX 8s.
207 737-800s averaging about seven and a half years.
431 737-700s with an average age of 18 years.So, with data from, let's see how the fleet is composed in 2023 with the following 737 variants, quantities, and average ages: Going from just three aircraft to nearly 800 over the course of 50 years shows the tremendous journey the airline has been on.
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