Two MD-80 services to US remain As per data from aviation analytics firm Cirium, there are only two US-bound MD-80 routes in existence as of August 2024, both of which are to Miami's main airport ...

At its 2002 peak, 362 of the MD-80 aircraft made up 44% of the carrier’s fleet. “If American kept the Super 80 until I’m 65, I’d be flying it,” Gomez said.

The MD-80’s final American Airlines revenue flight, AA80, was scheduled to depart from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport at 9 a.m. and arrive at Chicago O’Hare around 11:30 a.m.

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.

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 airplane ...

American plans to retire 45 MD-80s this year, most of them in the third quarter, and be rid of all of them by the end of 2017 as part of a fleet renewal project. Economically, the MD-80 is no ...

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 ...

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 ...

Still, the originally unwanted, and mostly unloved MD-80 arguably saved two companies – American and McDonnell Douglas, though the aircraft maker eventually was bought by rival Boeing in 1997.

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.

At that price, the MD-80 would burn $4,609 worth of fuel every hour, 29 percent more than the $3,561.50 used by the Boeing 737-800. And the Boeing 737-800 carries 157 passengers to the MD-80's 140.