Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field) has firmed nine options for B737-7 aircraft during the first quarter of 2025 and a further three in April 2025 as it becomes "increasingly optimistic" about Boeing's ability to deliver the aircraft on schedule.

Deliveries of all 12 newly firmed B737-7s are scheduled for 2026.

Following the conversion, Southwest Airlines has firm orders for 305 B737-7s and 196 B737-8, and retains a further 171 options which can be converted into a firm order for either of the variants.

"While we are not updating our previous assumption of thirty-eight B737-8 deliveries this year, we are increasingly optimistic about what we are seeing at Boeing and their ability to deliver. As we shared in January, we anticipate retiring roughly 50 aircraft during 2025," Executive Vice-President and CFO Tom Doxey said during the investor call.

The ch-aviation Commercial Aviation Aircraft Data module shows that the LCC has taken seventeen B737-8 deliveries in 2025 so far.

The delivery forecast for this year falls well short of the contractual plan. Southwest originally hoped to take seventy-three B737 MAX this year, including forty-three -7s and thirty -8s. The airline is also still missing 63 aircraft, which were originally scheduled for 2024.

The B737-7 type is yet to be certified by the FAA.

Including the newly converted options, Southwest Airlines expects to take 76 new deliveries (all currently scheduled as B737-7s).