United, Delta, American, and Alaska have orders for the Max 10 but Southwest doesn’t. Too big for the kind of operations they do
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I guess they could use it on Hawaii - continental us routes, but I agree
Yes. There are currently six special liveries on the -700’s:
Maryland (214), Colorado (230), Missouri (280), Florida (945), Louisiana (946), and Arizona (955).
No clue when or if they’ll be repainted onto the -800’s or MAX 8’s. I would assume so, but I’ve heard mixed things. If they are eventually, I don’t think it will be anytime soon…
Between the MAX delivery issues, Southwest still actively retiring older aircraft, losing some of their leased -800’s, and all of the Elliot changes and cuts, I really have no answer or clue what to expect with the future of special livery repaints.
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Just realized it has grey in it.
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Beautiful!
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I would really hope that Colorado One (N230WN) isn’t being retired already, but definitely something worhh to paying attention to as it was ferried to BHM yesterday. Only 19-years old, so who knows.
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No official word yet. I’m hearing mixed things, some saying it is headed into retirement, others saying it’s there for MTX. We shall see…
However, planespotters.net has it listed as “Stored” FWIW
Is there even a heavy MX facility at BHM?
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Not that I’m aware of…
All I know is typically 8*** ferries going into BHM are typically retirements.
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Looking at FR24, it appears that N230 departed MDW from the maintenance area on the flight to BHM. It’s possible that on July 1 somebody slammed the landing into MDW from Omaha (SWA3882) or some other thing broke. Whatever may have happened, the plane stayed in MDW for 2 days before flying that ferry flight to BHM, and the fact that this bird is only 19 years old facing possible retirement is pretty surprising considering SWA’s 700s reaches its maximum cycle count at around 22-24 years of age.
One thing to note is that the plane parked at the gate like it was any other regular scheduled flight rather than at the ramp where the other retired aircraft are (probably due to a few pax being present in the reposition flight), but at the same time there are no future scheduled flights of N230 according to FR24 which doesn’t seem promising.
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It now says “maintenance at BHM” on planespotters.net. might be a good sign.
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Where’s my ping?
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Question does stored FWIN means the same thing as retired ?
Another special livery lost, hopefully it will be brought back soon