When did BA stop flying 737?

As British Airways switched to the Airbus A320 family, it brought the 737 family out of service. However, the airline was still operating the type just five years ago. Indeed, British Airways' final Boeing 737 flight took place on September 30th, 2015.



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Despite the FlyersRights concerns, the FAA, Boeing and many pilots deem the 737 MAX safe to fly and many airlines have the plane in service. “I can say categorically that the 737 MAX product is safe,” then-acting FAA administrator Bill Nolen told members of the US Senate Commerce Committee in March.

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American flies the most of the jets as a portion of its overall fleet. Nearly one-third of its planes are 737-800 jets. Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines do not operate Boeing aircraft.

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“If you could book a 737 500, and you find out it's a 737 MAX, technically they don't have to honor your request. … So you don't have a right to specify you are not going to go on a 737 MAX.”

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Fear not, weary traveler—the now infamous Boeing 737 MAX has been cleared for takeoff. The intense scrutiny the aircraft has faced and the updates it has received as a result of investigations following two fatal crashes will undoubtedly make the MAX safer to fly than ever before.

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The airline's last Boeing 737 (a 737-300) was retired on 29 October 2016, after a flight from Milan to Frankfurt.

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Because of the sheer intensity of the scrutiny the aircraft faced, the Boeing 737 MAX could be considered one of the safest in the world. In fact, among the dozens of models of commercial airliners around the world, it is likely the safest due to the amount of regulation testing that took place.

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In a statement, it said: Since the 737 Max returned to service, airlines have flown nearly 240,000 flights around the world, and are conducting more than 1,300 flights every day. The in-service reliability is greater than 99%, and is consistent with other commercial airplane models.

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Pilots repeatedly voiced safety concerns about the Boeing 737 Max 8 to federal authorities, with one captain calling the flight manual inadequate and almost criminally insufficient several months before Sunday's Ethiopian Air crash that killed 157 people, an investigation by The Dallas Morning News found.

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On an American Airlines Boeing 737-800, for example, the seat-rating site SeatGuru warns of several “bad” seats, denoted in red. They include all the seats in row 30, at the back of the aircraft. The reasons are obvious: Like Conway's, the seats in row 30 are next to lavatories and don't fully recline.

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