Gary Kelly, CEO of Southwest Airlines has once again called on Boeing to give some indication this year on the possibility of a narrowbody replacement being launched by the US manufacturer.
“It remains to be seen where the aerospace industry is headed in terms of optimizing the size of a narrowbody aircraft, and we’re very interested to see where that settles,” Kelly said at a conference hosted by JP Morgan in New York City. "What is inevitable is that the next-generation aircraft for Southwest Airlines … may very well be a different airplane, whether it’s Boeing, whether it’s Airbus or whether it’s Bombardier … We don’t want eight different airplanes but I think we can handle two or three.