The MD-80s were getting old, but the key reason that Alaska speeded up the MD-80 retirements this year was that they sucked down fuel like crazy. According to Alaska, the MD-80s burned 1,100 ...

Alaska Airlines said Wednesday that its last two flights using MD-80 aircraft made in Long Beach would take place on Aug. 24. The “Mad Dog” as the aircraft is sometimes nicknamed has been a 23 ...

Alaska Airlines said it has canceled 11 flights Thursday while it inspects its small fleet of MD-80 jets. It canceled 28 flights Wednesday and three on Tuesday. Midwest Airlines was canceling some ...

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An Alaska Airlines MD-80 jetliner made an emergency landing Monday night at San Francisco International Airport after an engine began spitting sparks. Flight 289 had arrived at the airport from ...

The FAA said Alaska Airlines had decided to stop flying the planes until it could further check the jackscrew controlling the MD-80’s tail-mounted horizontal stabilizer after learning that some ...

Nanney and Alaska have denied any problems with the twin-engine jetliner, which was built in 1986 and remains in service along with the airline's 35 other MD-80 planes. Alaska hopes to phase out ...

SEATTLE (AP) Alaska Airlines had completed 15 of an expected 17 inspections of MD-80 aircraft by midday Friday, one day after announcing that a tool used to measure stresses on the jets tail ...

January 31st, 2000 The pilots of an Alaska Airlines MD-80 fight desperately for control, as their aircraft careens towards the Pacific ocean with terrifying speed. No matter what they do ...

Alaska Airlines says it has no flight cancellations today for MD-80 inspections. A spokeswoman, Caroline Boren, says eight of the airline’s nine MD-80s are back in service and the ninth is out ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a $211,000 fine against Alaska Airlines for operating one of its MD-80 jets on 47 flights before replacing a damaged landing-gear part. The flights ...