The classic McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was well known by its moniker “Mad Dog” for its loud engines and old-school handling features. The low-bypass engines mounted on its tail were very different from ...
DALLAS — When Flight 80 pushes back from the gate at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, it will mark the end of an era for American Airlines. The Chicago O’Hare-bound jet will be the last MD-80 in passenger service ...
Julio Gomez has flown the MD-80 for his entire 20-year career at American Airlines. But he can’t bring himself to make that final trip into the New Mexico desert. “I just cannot take that airplane to ...
An American Airlines MD-80 plane is pictured in Dallas, Texas, on Jan. 1, 2001. Julio Gomez has flown the MD-80 for his entire 20-year career at American Airlines. But he can’t bring himself to make ...
TULSA, Okla. — On Wednesday, American Airlines (AA) is retiring all remaining MD-80 aircraft after 36 years of flying domestically. The airline giant began operating the MD-80 in 1983. At one point, ...
CHICAGO — It’s the end of an era for American Airlines’ Super 80 planes. The carrier is flying its last revenue flight of the classic McDonnell Douglas MD-80 Wednesday, Sept. 4. The aircraft, also ...
American Airlines celebrated an end of an era Wednesday with its final flight of an MD-80 passenger jet, a workhorse that once accounted for half its fleet. Over the last 37 years, Fort Worth-based ...
From the cockpit of the MD-80, the runway at Memphis International Airport vanishes as the nose lifts into the virtual clouds. Dozens of dials, switches and levers surround me as I sit in the pilot’s ...
Julio Gomez has flown the MD-80 for his entire 20-year career at American Airlines. But he can’t bring himself to make that final trip into the New Mexico desert. “I just cannot take that airplane to ...
Delta Air Lines is advancing the retirement date of its McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft to June 2. The Long Beach, California-built jets joined the Delta fleet in 1987 and also flew for Trans ...
An era ended at American Airlines on Wednesday as the airline retired the remaining 26 planes of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 fleet to Roswell, New Mexico. Kerry Philipovitch, senior vice president of ...
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