Westjet's retirement of the 737-200 series

Most of you are familiar that Westjet has got a great brand new fleet with the fancy leather seats and satellite tv in for everyone. Those 737's are the nice new models classifed as the 737-700, 737-800 and 737-600 series. The jist of all those numbers just means that they are slightly different in total size, so more or less passengers.

The airline started with only 3 planes though, and these were pretty old 737-200 series aircraft. But Westjet was a smart cookie and owned the planes outright, that's part of the contributing factor to the whole Westjet success story. Well, those planes were old and noisy and not as technilogically robust as the newer aircraft these days. So once they got the whole airline up and running smoothly, they started to phase out the 200 series. Here's a little video that's quite neat that shows the party they threw to retire the last one. It's neat to see the plane doing something that you don't always associate with a medium sized commercial transport aircraft!