This is first Next
Generation Boeing 737.
It seats 145 (maximum 149) passengers and has a maximum range of 3,365
nautical miles or 6,225 km.
In December 1997 the first
Boeing 737-700 was delivered to Southwest. A few months later the first
737-800
was delivered.
By may 2005 some 645 boeing 737-700 had been build of
which 643 were still in service and some 335 more were on order. So the
737-700 sold well, which can't be said of it's smaller brother the
737-600.
By the end of 2006 Boeing had recieved a total of already 1265 orders for a 737-700.
Airlines flying the Boeing 737-700 in 2009 include:
royal air maroc,
malev hungarian,
easyjet, ...