Southwest Airlines Is Spending $19 Billion To Upgrade Its Fleet

Southwest Airlines has announced that they will be one of the launch customers for the next generation Boeing 737.Dubbed the 737 Max, the new plane is a reengineered, more efficient version of the 737, Boeing's best selling plane.According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Southwest has just put an order in for 208 new planes, 150 of which are the new 737 Max. The list price for all of these planes comes to almost $19 billion.A longtime Boeing customer, Southwest had publicly considered switching to an Airbus plane if Boeing did not release an updated version of the 737 before the end of the decade.Boeing is planning delivery of the first 737 Maxes to Southwest in 2017.Hopefully there are not the same delays like there were with the new 787, which flew for the first time almost two years after initially planned.Now take a look at these cool Russian airliners >Please follow Getting There on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:A Colorado Airport Is Working On Its Own Space ProgramPOLL BOMBSHELL: Ron Paul Is Close To A Win In IowaPhotos From The Now-Infamous 'Twitterati' Party At A Night Club In Vegas

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