Southwest Airlines not looking to shift to Airbus aircraft, still want Boeing MAX 7s

Southwest Airlines has no plans to diversify its fleet towards Airbus aircraft and still wants to eventually take delivery of the Boeing 737 MAX 7 planes it has ordered, Vice President Treasurer Dean Jenkins said on Tuesday.

Southwest Airlines has no plans to diversify its fleet towards Airbus aircraft and still wants to eventually take delivery of the Boeing 737 MAX 7 planes it has ordered, Vice President Treasurer Dean Jenkins said on Tuesday. Asked if he would consider diversifying the U.S.-based airline's fleet, he told journalists: "That's not in the plans right now. Even if we wanted to, it's a number of years before you could get planes from Airbus."

Jenkins was speaking on the sidelines of the Airline Economics conference in Dublin.