Southwest will fly 50 flights to Las Vegas this month using the Boeing 737 MAX 8. This means the newest iteration of the ...

Southwest will start rolling out extra legroom seats on May 1, gradually retrofitting planes through the year, part of a ...

But, in the future, Southwest will offer extra legroom seats for a charge or for free for some statusholders. The aircraft I flew on was a Boeing 737 MAX 8, one of 244 that Southwest has in its fleet.

Southwest Airlines on April 30 will begin the retrofitting process to create its new extra-legroom seats, beginning with Boeing 737-800 and Max-8 aircraft, the carrier announced Thursday.