MD80
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So Long, Mad Dog
On Tuesday, the last of Delta’s McDonnell Douglas-branded aircraft gathered at the grandiosely-named Arkansas International Airport in Blytheville, not far from the…
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3 Links I Love: The American MD-80 Edition
American may not have had a 747 to retire like Delta and United, but the airline put together one heck of a…
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3 Links I Love: More MAX Delays, Death of the Widebody, A Massive Regional Gap
This week’s featured link: FAA and Boeing initially disagreed on severity of “catastrophic” 737 MAX software glitch – The Air CurrentBest I…
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3 Links I Love: Interviewing Ed Bastian, MD-80s Go Bye Bye, LAX in the 1960s
This week’s featured link: Delta Air Lines CEO on why he still flies in the back of the plane – Marketplace Here’s…
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Alaska Retires the MD-80
Another week, another airline retires the good ole’ MD-80. This past Sunday, Alaska flew its last MD-80 operation, and the airline is…
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Midwest Rolls Out Its Post-MD80 Schedule
We knew it was coming. When Midwest said it would ditch its MD-80s, that had to mean a lot of flight cuts…
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Don’t Blame the MD-80 For This Mess
There’s no question that American has done an absolutely terrible job of managing the latest round of MD-80 maintenance issues from a…
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Contrary to Press Reports, Not Every Airplane is Unsafe
Recent media reports might make it seem like the sky is falling; as if every airplane you encounter may be unsafe. Just…
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Who the F*** is Allegiant Air?
If I went up to 100 people in the US asked them about Allegiant Air, my guess is almost all of them…