Delta's configuration for the Boeing 717 will feature 12 first-class seats, 15 Economy Comfort seats and 83 in coach. Delta will use its 717s both to the replace its 50-seat regional jets and the ...

Boeing Co. warned anew Friday that it was considering shutting down its 717 jetliner production line in Long Beach, the state’s last remaining commercial aircraft assembly plant, because of ...

So far, Boeing has received firm orders for only 137 of the twin-engine jets, of which 82 have been delivered. A year ago, Boeing adopted a new process to churn out a 717 about every 20 days.

Boeing By Andrew McIntosh – Reporter, Puget Sound Business Journal Aug 16, 2016 Updated Aug 16, 2016 1:27pm PDT ...

Boeing rebranded the MD-95 as the Boeing 717 The deal allowed Boeing to use surplus McDonnell Douglas factory capacity, and of the planes in production, only the MD-95 and MD-11 would continue ...

The 100-seat 717 is the orphan jet inherited by The Boeing Co. in its 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas. It was developed by McDonnell Douglas as the MD-95, as a replacement for the popular DC-9.

Cebu, a discount airline, operates a fleet of aging DC-9s -- the plane that the 717 was developed in part to replace. The 717 was known as the MD-95 until Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged in 1997.

Boeing’s 717 is at the end of the line. The Boeing Co. on Wednesday announced that it had started assembling the last of the 106-seat, single-aisle planes.