Boeing 737 (all variants) — safety record, routes and airlines

The Boeing 737 (all variants) has 534 occurrences in our most recent five-year window. It has 260 hull losses and 2,612 recorded occurrences in total. 133 of them were fatal, the most recent in 2026. These are counts from the public record, not a rating: they reflect how widely a type flies as much as how it performs, and they do not predict any individual flight. The methodology page explains how we count.

It depends on the variant and configuration. A 737-800 or MAX 8 typically seats 162 to 189 in a two-class layout, or up to around 200 in a high-density single-class cabin. The smaller 737-700 and MAX 7 carry roughly 126 to 149 seats, while the stretched MAX 9 and MAX 10 reach 178 to 204 and 188 to 230 respectively.

The MAX 8 has a range of about 3,500 nautical miles, which covers most transcontinental US routes and many transatlantic sectors from the US East Coast to Western Europe. The longer-range MAX 8 ER and MAX 10 push closer to 3,300 to 3,800 nautical miles depending on payload, enough for routes like New York to Rome or Los Angeles to Honolulu with full passenger loads.

Yes, very much so. The NG family (737-700/800/900) is still in service across most major and low-cost carriers, and the MAX family is in full production and continued deliveries. Between NG and MAX variants, the 737 remains the single most-produced and most-flown airliner worldwide, with thousands of daily departures.