The Airbus A350-1000ULR to be used on the routes will spend 70-75% of the year — particularly in the northern hemisphere summer — operating the conventional westbound flightpaths over the Middle East region.
Southwest will introduce the long-delayed Boeing 737 Max no sooner than six months after certification of the type, said operations chief Andrew Watterson at the IATA AGM in Rio de Janeiro on 6 June.