American Airlines retires the remaining airplanes from what used to be the biggest fleet in its history, the McDonnell ...

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was the last American-built aircraft to feature an analog cockpit. The aircraft entered commercial service with Swissair in October 1980, and became a mainstay of ...

A former American Airlines MD-80 (N984TW), which was the last MD-80 ever produced and American's final revenue flight of the type, flew again after being in storage since 2019. The 25-year-old ...

Airline's Latest 737-800 Christened 'Spirit Of Seattle' Good riddance to old Mad-Dogs. On Thursday, Alaska Airlines completed its transition to an all-Boeing 737 aircraft fleet with the retirement of ...

American last week decided to extend a test program started in June that aims to keep MD-80 cockpit crews and some cabin crews with one aircraft during the entire flying day after the early "positive" ...

This week’s Flight Friday looks at a platform that was severely impacted by the COVID pandemic, the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series. After deliveries of the first MD-81 in 1980, following on from the ...

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was a successful 20th-century family of narrowbody twinjets, with almost 1,200 units produced from 1979 to 1999. Affectionately known by many as the 'Mad Dog,' these ...

The MD-80 aircraft was once the workhorse of the American Airlines fleet. The skinny commercial jets were beloved by frequent flyers for their lack of a middle seat on one side of the cabin, and by ...

STOCKHOLM, Sept 13 (Reuters) - SAS AB : * Signs an agreement to sell and phase out all md-80 aircraft * Says Sas continues to renew its aircraft fleet and has signed an agreement to sell four md-82/87 ...

A former American Airlines MD-80 (N984TW), the last MD-80 ever produced, took flight again for the first time since its retirement in 2019. CAVU Aerospace prepared the 25-year-old aircraft for a ferry ...