Originally Posted by
diver858
... Southwest’s initial ETOPS sub-fleet will have 28 ... ". A significant portion of those aircraft are already in service to the Caribbean and Mexico, I am wondering how many will be available for service to Hawaii?
Zero of those 28 need or use ETOPS for Caribbean or Mexico. Southwest can sub in any plane they want. *
* note that in early days of Southwest flying to SJU or AUA they only did so using liferaft equipped 737-800s but not as of their later flight plans.