#swapics

[sentinelchicken]

N8502Z, one of Southwest’s Boeing 737-800s, gets airborne at Baltimore Washington. Of the 746 Boeing 737s in Southwest’s fleet, 207 of them are the 737-800s with an average age of 3.2 years. Southwest inaugurated its 737-800 services on 11 April 2012. The first revenue service was SWA 1717 MDW-FLL on N8301J “Warrior One” followed thirty minutes later by N8302F as SWA 653 BWI-RSW. #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KBWI #BWI #Baltimore #Maryland #airport #planespotting #instaplane #instagramaviation #Avgeekery #Boeing #737 #Southwest #SWApics #N8502Z #splendid_transport #instaaviation #aviationlovers #aviationphotography #flight #Avgeekery #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge (at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bps-5S9lQGW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lqjnk4ylcsra

[sentinelchicken]

One from the archives going back to 2007, this Desert Gold and Canyon Blue at Little Rock National Airport. Southwest’s original livery (nicknamed “Mustard Rocket”) dates back to its founding in 1971 and the introduction of the second livery, the Canyon Blue scheme, on 16 January 2001, coincided with the celebration of Southwest’s 30th anniversary. Not many liveries in the airline industry have lasted 30 years (American’s prior livery comes immediately to mind and it came out right around the same time Southwest was founded in 1971, replacing the Astrojet livery). I believe the repainting the Canyon Blue livery at Southwest was completed sometime in 2010. #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KLIT #LIT #LittleRock #Arkansas #airport #planespotting #instaplane #instagramaviation #Avgeekery #Boeing #737 #Southwest #SWApics #splendid_transport #instaaviation #aviationlovers #aviationphotography #flight #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge (at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport Adams Field Little Rock National Airport Main Number)

[sentinelchicken]

Houston Hobby was one of the original three destinations served by Southwest in 1971 at a time when everyone else vacated HOU for Houston Intercontinental (IAH) north of the city which opened in 1969. Southwest now carries 93% of the passengers at Hobby with the busiest route out of here being Dallas Love Field. DAL has always been the most popular destination airport from HOU, I always figured that was mostly DAL passengers transiting through Hobby to get around the Wright Amendment. But going over the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for passenger traffic at HOU and comparing before the Wright Amendment repeal in 2014 to now, DAL remains the top destination and if anything, five years ago Southwest accounted for 88% of passengers at HOU and now it’s 93%. Some of that market share growth came with the AirTran acquisition but it doesn’t account for all of it. I suspect most of it has to do with Houston and Dallas being such significant economic and population centers, the traffic between DAL and HOU will always be tremendous on account of both airports being much closer to the downtown of both cities compared to DFW and IAH. #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KHOU #HOU #HoustonHobby #airport #planespotting #instaplane #instagramaviation #Avgeekery #Boeing #737 #Southwest #SWApics #splendid_transport #instaaviation #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge (at William P. Hobby Airport)

[sentinelchicken]

Boeings big and small! The Southwest 737-700 is N734SA, delivered to the airline in July 1999. The QANTAS 747-400ER is VH-OEG “Parkes”, delivered to the airline in December 2002. Having lived in the Dallas/Fort Worth area since 1989, to see a Southwest jet next to a QANTAS 747 is an unusual sight for me as Southwest operates out of Dallas Love Field while QANTAS serves DFW International (our QANTAS services are now A380s, so it was nice to see a QANTAS 747-400ER again which was used prior to the A380 on the Sydney-DFW route). #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KSFO #SFO #airport #SanFrancisco #California #planespotting #airlines #megaplane #instaplane #Boeing #737 #Southwest #N734SA #SWApics #747 #QANTAS #VHOEG #instagramaviation #splendid_transport #instaaviation #aviationlovers #aviationphotography #flight #Avgeekery #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge #AvGeek_SchoolofKnowledge (at San Francisco International Airport)

[sentinelchicken]

The other day Southwest finally retired its last Boeing 737-300s. I knew on this particular flight back in June (HOU-DAL) that this would be my last time on a 737-300 as Southwest is pretty much the last significant US airline operator of the -300. Southwest began 737-300 services in December 1984 as the launch customer along with USAir. Both airlines each ordered 10 737-300s with options for 20 each in March 1981. The -300 was the most successful variant of the 737-300/400/500 family with the prototype rolling out at Renton in 17 January 1984 and the last 737-300 being delivered to Air New Zealand on 17 December 1999. The 737-300 is near synonymous with Southwest, having operated nearly 200 in the airline’s history. That comes out to nearly 20% of the 737-300 production (18% to be exact) having flown in the colors of Southwest Airlines. #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KHOU #HOU #HoustonHobby #airport #planespotting #instaplane #instagramaviation #Avgeekery #Boeing #737 #Southwest #SWApics #splendid_transport #instaaviation #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge (at William P. Hobby Airport)

[jeffreynyc]

De-Icing in progress in Nashville @SouthwestAir #SWApics #NASPA17 (at Nashville International Airport)

[jeffreynyc]

Another @SouthwestAir jet passing below us in route to #NASPA17 #SWAPics (at Wayne County, West Virginia)

[jeffreynyc]

It is difficult to comprehend the vastness of @CentralParkNYC unless you see it from the air! @SouthwestAir #LoveNYC #GoPark #SeeYourCity #SWAPics (at Central Park)