I thought the deferrals were mostly −800's. Either way they are up to something. They just ordered a zillion 737's and moments later deferred a bunch. Something came up.

The deferred are all 800s. SWA still taking delivery of 34 this yr and an additional 49 in 2013 and 2014. Total of 345 firm orders.

Kelly says "we're more conservative right now with respect to expansion."

Translation: no more growth for SWA right now. 83 737s next three yrs are replacement aircraft. How many 717s do they have!?

The something that came up is costs. They may be figuring out there just isn't enough demand to fill up the bigger airplanes in their high frequency point to point model (just a hypothesis).

I think it just changed to case sensitive, because mine used to work in all lowercase, but now I had to put the caps in the right places

NVM missread my proxy material

Yeah it's called somebody realized you can't turn 320 (160 x 2) passengers in 25 minutes!!!!!

Does SWA have a 25 minutes or its free rule?:eek:

I guess 737-900s are completely out of the question.:D

That depends. Instead of 180 people it may only seat 90 :D

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Unless they do what they do in chicken coops and get a bulldozer that pushes all of the crap and dead chickens out once the other chickens have gone on for "processing."

So if they have collapsible seats they could just turn on a bulldozer and shove everyone out along with the dead ones, their poop and whatever other crap they dropped.

The other idea, no overheads. Force everyone to drop off their bag.

how long will the 737-1000 be? Or is there a rule where when you get to -900, you have to have a clean sheet design.

The new SWA

This is a very efficient idea. Like a chicken house, they could have a giant hopper filled with their signature peanuts. The peanuts would use engine bleed air to move them from the hopper to a feeding tough in the center of the aisle.

There would be a separate trough for diet coke. Everyone would be given a straw when they got on board.

No name brand luggage allowed, everyone would have to pack their stuff in a lawn and leaf bag.

Seating would be like the fold down "jumpseats" on miltary transports facing the center of the aircraft. No seatbelts, all passengers would be secured with a single tie down strap for their row.

Lavs would be removed and galleys would be removed allowing more seats. Flight attendants would be issued cattle prods.

All in fun of course.