My Fellow Aviation Geeks know that Southwest Airlines retired our last 737-200 on January 17, 2005.  I was one of the lucky Employees (wearing pajamas designed for the event, no less) to have been selected for the hour-long flight onboard N95SW.  Our flight path that day took us down to the Waco area where Captains Jim Rice and Jeff Kilponen turned the airplane around back to Dallas for the

38 years ago this month Southwest took its first aircraft off the line from The Boeing Company. See one of the newest aircraft as it is unveiled at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. Also, on June 6, 1994, Southwest began service to three great cities: Seattle, Spokane, and Portland!

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Interview with Captain Chuck Magill, Vice President of Flight Operations about why we only fly 737s, and with Herb, our Founder and Chairman Emeritus who explains why we went with the Boeing back in 1971. Give it a listen.

This episode of Red Belly Radio is about why Southwest Airlines operates only one type of aircraft, the Boeing 737. The simple answer is because it is reliable.