Southwest Retires Final 737-200 Series Aircraft
January 17, 2005 - Dallas, TX
 Photo by David Woo |
Southwest Airlines’ Chairman, Herb Kelleher (at podium), and its CEO, Gary Kelly (in background), today celebrated the retirement of the #8217;s founding aircraft type with approximately 1,000 Southwest Employees. The Boeing 737-200 helped launch the carrier 33 years ago and is now being replaced by the newer 737-700 model. |
 Photo by David Woo |
Southwest Airlines’ Chairman, Herb Kelleher (right), and its CEO, Gary Kelly (left), wearing pajamas and robes, today joined approximately 1,000 Employees from across its system at an early-morning event to bid adieu to N95, a 737-200 that is ending a 21-year career at Southwest. One of Boeing’s newest aircraft, the 737-700, makes up any new delivery to Southwest’s fleet. |
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Ninety-five lucky Southwest Airlines’ Employees were onboard the last official flight of aircraft N95, a Boeing 737-200 that joined the Southwest fleet in 1983. The flight took off before sunrise so these Employees, in their pajamas, took part in an impromptu pillow fight. The 737-200s launched Southwest’s service back in 1971. These have been phased out in favor of the latest Boeing product, the 737-700. |
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Southwest Airlines’ newest aircraft delivery, a Boeing 737-700 (left) in its “Canyon Blue” livery meets the retiring model, the Boeing 737-200 (right) on that aircraft’s last official day in the Southwest fleet. N95, in the vintage “Desert Orange” paint, has flown approximately 7600 days for 67,402 flight hours with 73,922 takeoffs and landings. That’s 38,846,919 miles-- enough to travel to the moon and back 81 times. |
 Photo by David Woo |
About 1,000 Southwest Airlines’ Employees reveled in confetti and balloons as they celebrated the retirement of the carrier’s founding fleet type, the Boeing 737-200. The carrier served just 22 cities when N95 joined the fleet in 1983 and served 9.5 million Customers. Southwest now has a fleet of 419 Boeing 737s, serves 59 cities, and carried more than 65 million Customers last year. |
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Southwest Airlines’ CEO, Gary Kelly, dressed in his robe and pajamas, joined about 1,000 Southwest Employees for an early-morning event to celebrate the last day of the carrier’s founding fleet, the Boeing 737-200. “This Company has accomplished great things during its valiant career,” Kelly said. “As we move boldly into the future, it is important that we remember our roots and celebrate our milestones.” The latest Boeing model, the 737-700, makes up any new delivery to Southwest fleet. |
