Take the retirement of QantasLink’s Boeing 717 fleet last year, and the phasing out of Dash 8 Q200 and Q300 aircraft. Within months buyers had emerged: 19 of the Boeing 717s – average age 23 ...

Think your 30-year-old, red-tailed A330 is tired? We tracked where some of Qantas’s most beloved but oldest planes have ended up, from the Mojave desert to other big airlines. Take the ...

On September 2nd, 1998 the Boeing 717 took its very first flight. The jet was originally named the MD-95 as it was developed under McDonnell Douglas. However, with the company merging with Boeing ...

Related: Delta moves up Boeing 717, many 767 retirements amid coronavirus fleet reset A Delta Boeing 767 takes off from Dusseldorf, Germany. (Photo by Robert Smith/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images) ...

The Boeing 717 has been a workhorse of Qantas’ domestic network since the flag carrier acquired Impulse Airlines back in 2001. Once adorned with Impulse’s blue livery (complete with giant cockatoo on ...

Qantas has operated the last Boeing 717 passenger flight, marking the end of over 20 years of operations. The final commercial flight took place on 26 October as flight QF1511 flew from Sydney to ...

Aircraft VH-YQS arrived in Hobart for the last time on Wednesday morning. Image / Qantas (File) After years of faithful service, the final QantasLink Boeing 717 flight has touched down in Hobart for ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1998, the Boeing 717 took to the skies for the first time from Long Beach, California. The type began life as the McDonnell Douglas MD-95 and was first launched at the Paris Air ...