United To Add 25 More 737s, Retire Its 747s Sooner

Credit: JoePriesAviation.net
United Airlines said on March 8 it soon will add 25 new Boeing 737-700s and accelerate nine widebody deliveries so it can retire all of its 747s by 2018. While United executives said as recently as April 2015 that they were considering keeping the 747s into at least 2020, they suggested in recent...

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