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Reopening the debate
01 March 2006
Andrew McGuinness asks whether there is any real difference between manufacturer and independent conversions.
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If you go to any major airport in the world you are likely to see 737-700s. Pretty much anyone who flies regularly will have been on one. Some would say that makes it boring, but it is this regularity that makes it such a great aircraft to own.
No one has ever been fired for buying a 737-700.
The aircraft's value hardly fell during the most recent downturn and it retained values better than nearly any other aircraft. The 737-700 has come second only to its big brother, the 737-800, in the Airfinance Journal Investors' Poll for the past three years.
Southwest – the world's most successful low-cost airline – is...
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