The long storied history of Trans World Airlines ended Wednesday in Roswell, N.M., as American Airlines retired its last TWA MD-80. A number of former TWA pilots flew the jets to their final ...

The retirement of American Airlines' MD-80 marks the end of an era for a plane whose old-school design and noisy rear engines spawned love-hate relationships over the four decades it flew.

The MD-80 is also called the "Super 80" by American Airlines or "Mad Dog" by aviation enthusiasts. It was the "workhouse" of their fleet for close to four decades, American Airlines said in a news ...

An American Airlines MD-80 was ferried to Roswell International Air Center in Roswell, New Mexico, on Wednesday, September 4, 2019. American is retiring the remainder of its MD-80 fleet, which ...

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 ...

The MD-80, which entered service in 1980, became one of the most successful of the Douglas commercial jet programs. The last of 1,191 MD-80s was delivered to TWA in December 1999.

The eventual retirement of the MD-80 – long the backbone of American’s domestic fleet – will end an era for American. The carrier once had more than 370 “Super 80s,” as the airline ...

Workers prepare an American Airlines MD-80 for departure at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport this spring. American is phasing out its MD-80s and replacing them with the Airbus A321 and the ...

The last revenue flight for an American Airlines MD-80 aircraft lifted off from DFW Airport after 9 a.m. Wednesday. Jake Dean The American Airlines Super 80 conducted its final revenue flight ...

A former American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is potentially getting a new lease on life. For the first time since its final flight in 2019, the 25-year-old aircraft took to the skies again.

However, you'd be surprised to learn that the MD-80 can still be found, albeit very rarely, in the US as a passenger aircraft, but only at a single airport: Miami International Airport (MIA).