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Southwest Rethinks Plane Retirement, Shelves Outsource Plan

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At the end of 2007 Southwest had 520 aircraft with an average age of 9.4 years. One way to keep maintenance expenses low would be to upgrade its fleet and Southwest is going to retire oler planes faste and take new ones from Boeing plants. Ths year it will take 22 new planes and this should accelerate. Outsourcing maintenance is less likely in the new climate of inspections after recent lapses.

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