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American Airlines Is About To Remove Its Last Boeing 737 Seat Back Video Screen

by Gary Leff on March 2, 2021

Mar 02 2021

During the pandemic American Airlines accelerated the removal of seat back video screens from its Boeing 737 aircraft. While other airlines aggressively clamped down on capital spending, American ramped up its effort to add seats to its planes – reducing the amount of space per passenger, even in
first class – and take out the screens.

Now there is just one Boeing 737-800 left with seat back entertainment: N981NN. And unfortunately you won’t be able to fly on it, because it’s been in storage in Miami since November 23, 2020 and is about to be sent in to be retrofit.

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 For Sale On Facebook

by Gary Leff on February 22, 2021

Feb 22 2021

A former Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 is being offered for sale on Facebook.

The plane was delivered to Southwest in October 1995 and named for the airline’s first Vice President of Maintenance Jack Vidal. It was parked in September 2017. It is currently stored in Victorville, California and it can be yours for an asking price of $550,000.

American Airlines Is Nearly Done Updating Its Boeing 737s Into ‘Torquemada Configuration’

by Gary Leff on December 27, 2020

Dec 27 2020

While other airlines minimize their spending to conserve cash during the pandemic, American has been accelerating their capital spending to convert planes more quickly to this new standard. This is the wrong product at the wrong time: exactly the moment where there are fewer customers (so planes with more seats are less needed) and customers value space between them most (so reducing space between customers makes no sense).

American is nearly done. They have now sent 200 Boeing 737-800s in for densification. That’s two-thirds of the 737-800 fleet. But it’s far more of the active fleet.

Southwest Says If There’s Ever A Time To Walk Away Being Exclusively Boeing It’s Now

by Gary Leff on October 22, 2020

Oct 22 2020

After 50 years committed to Boeing, Southwest Airlines said on its third quarter earnings call that if there was ever a time to consider buying non-Boeing aircraft it would be now. They aren’t growth constrained. They have plenty of unused and underutilized aircraft in their fleet. And that gives them the space and time to transition to a new aircraft.

Boeing 737 Broke Apart After Overrunning Runway In Istanbul

by Gary Leff on February 5, 2020

Feb 05 2020

A Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 touched down in bad weather at Istanbul’s second airport (Sabiha, code SAW) after flying from Izmur, Turkey. Flight PC 2193 overran runway 6 and hit the airport’s perimeter wall. The plane broke into 3 parts. An engine that separated caught fire.

There were 183 passengers and crew on board. It took nearly five hours to free everyone from the wreckage. One person is reported to have perished, and 157 taken to area hospitals. All six crew on board were injured.

A Boeing 737 Either Did – Or Did Not – Crash Today

by Gary Leff on January 27, 2020

Jan 27 2020

A government-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 737 operating a domestic Kandahar – Kabul flight reportedly has crashed in the country’s central Ghazni province, in Taliban-controlled territory around 1:25 p.m. local time on Monday. That’s according to a provincial government spokesperson, and confirmed by the country’s Second Vice President. Local reports suggest 83 souls on board.

The airline, however, denies this.

In Midst Of Heightened Tensions Boeing 737 Crashes In Iran

by Gary Leff on January 8, 2020

Jan 08 2020

Ukraine International Airlines flight PS753 from Tehran to Kiev crashed into an open field in a Tehran suburb minutes after departure. The three year old Boeing 737-800 with 176 souls on board ceased broadcasting from its transponder as it climbed through 8000 feet.

Several Iranian sources and a Dubai-based news agency reported the cause as an accidental missile strike although it is too early to offer any conclusions. Initial reporting on such incidents is often wrong.

Plane Got Stuck Under A Bridge, Officials Had To Figure Out How To Get Break It Loose

by Gary Leff on December 26, 2019

Dec 26 2019

In the fall an Airbus A320 got stuck under a bridge in Harbin, China. The quick thinking truck driver carrying the plane managed to break it free by deflating his tires.

Now images of a plane getting stuck in Durgapur, West Bengal, India are going viral and deflating the tires wasn’t enough. Officials were called in and they “had to get rid of the tyres” in order to free the plane and get the truck moving again. It had to be “pushed out with the help of another truck.”

Southwest Airlines Could Abandon the Boeing 737 MAX 7, Order Embraer E2 Jets

by Gary Leff on August 14, 2019

Aug 14 2019

It was one fateful phone call with Boeing — while Southwest founding President Lamar Muse and co-founder Rollin King were meeting with the Douglas Aircraft Company — that led the airline to go with the 737.

Now they have over 750 of the aircraft. However they could look beyond the Boeing 737 for their future.

Icelandair Fires 45 Boeing 737 MAX Pilots

by Gary Leff on June 6, 2019

Jun 06 2019

The world airline trade group IATA says the Boeing 737 MAX could fly again in August. Not everyone is so sure. Different countries’ regulators are taking different approaches, though the US is pushing for many countries to re-certify the plane at the same time — and quickly.

Icelandair has leased aircraft to pick up the slack for grounded 737 MAXs, and in a move that reveals a shocking lack of confidence in the aircraft returning to their skies any time soon the airline has let go of 45 Boeing 737 MAX pilots.