No, not really.  From time to time, well, nearly daily really, I see “stories” on Google about airlines or the airline industry thrown about buy companies writing analysis about stocks.

The Motley Fool is one, quite frequently, who does this.

A couple of days ago, I saw a report by a website called Zacks promoting news that the shutdown is affecting airlines but also has a statement that Southwest is affected in its ability to get jets delivered and is due to take on new widebodies.

That’s just bad information on a level that should never happen.

Southwest is not buying widebody jets.  It is buying ever so slightly larger 737-800 jets of which most of 2013 deliveries are supposed to be.

Filed under: Airline News, Trivia by ajax