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Continental Airlines Flight 1404 was a Continental Airlines domestic flight from Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas. [1] On the evening of December 20, 2008, the flight crashed while taking off from Denver, resulting in two critical injuries, 36 noncritical injuries, and a ...
All were transferred to United Airlines. Boeing 737-800: 126 4 — 14 141 155 All fleet and remaining orders transferred to United Airlines. 16 144 160 Boeing 737-900: 12 — — 20 153 173 All were transferred to United Airlines. Boeing 737-900ER: 30 22 — 20 153 173 All fleet and remaining orders transferred to United Airlines. Boeing 757 ...
The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retained the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating but with two underwing Pratt & Whitney JT8D low-bypass turbofan engines.
Founder. Don Burr (First CEO) People Express Airlines, stylized as PEOPLExpress, was a low-cost airline in the United States that operated from 1981 until it merged with Continental Airlines in 1987. Its headquarters was in the North Terminal (later Terminal C) of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey.
The initial 737-300 (foreground) is 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) longer than the 737-200 (background) and is re-engined with wider and more efficient CFM56 turbofans. Following the success of the Boeing 737-200 Advanced, Boeing wanted to increase capacity and range, incorporating improvements to upgrade the plane to modern specifications, while also retaining commonality with previous 737 variants.
Mexican Air Force has one 737-200Adv, and one 737-300F. [ 8 ] Peruvian Air Force has three 737-200, one 737-500 aircraft. [ 8 ] Polish Air Force has one 737-800 and two 737 BBJ2s. [ 13 ] Royal Saudi Air Force has two 737-700 BBJ, and one 737-800 aircraft. [ 8 ] South African Air Force have 1 737-700WL BBJ.
Boeing 737-400 combi aircraft of First Air with passenger windows behind the wing but not ahead 737-300 Combi interior. Combi aircraft in commercial aviation are aircraft that can be used to carry either passengers as an airliner, or cargo as a freighter, and may have a partition in the aircraft cabin to allow both uses at the same time in a mixed passenger/freight combination.
In the 2000s many airlines began to retire the type. Alaska Airlines' tipping point in using the 737-800 was the $4 per gallon price of jet fuel the airline was paying by the summer of 2008; the airline stated that a typical Los Angeles-Seattle flight would cost $2,000 less, using a Boeing 737-800, than the same flight using an MD-80. [37]