Southwest Airlines has ordered split scimitar winglets for its Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 jets. The Dallas-based airline ordered 85 of the new winglets from Seattle-based Aviation Partners Boeing ...

If you've ever spent time staring out the window of your commercial flight, chances are you saw the wing of your airplane and the geometric extension at its end. Called a wingtip, that section is an ...

If you think that you've been seeing some funny-looking airliners in the past couple of months, you're not imagining things. On February 18th, a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 made the world's first ...

United Airlines says it has become the world's first carrier to operate an airliner fitted with new "split scimitar" winglets on a commercial flight. United says in a Wednesday statement that the ...

Southwest Airlines flew its first regularly scheduled passenger flight on a Boeing 737 outfitted with "split scimitar winglets" on a Phoenix-to-Denver flight Thursday. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft ...