American MD-80 aircraft in Roswell, New Mexico [Credit: AirlineGeeks/ William Derrickson] A former American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is potentially getting a new lease on life. For the first ...

Capt. Bruce Taylor welcomed about 40 guests aboard the last passenger flight of an American Airlines’ MD-80 aircraft at DFW Airport. As the door shut and the passengers settled into their seats, ...

Spend even a small amount of time at any major US airport, and you are bound to see a Boeing 737 in the instantly recognizable livery of American Airlines. After all, the Fort Worth, Texas-based ...

This week’s Flight Friday looks at a platform that was severely impacted by the COVID pandemic, the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series. After deliveries of the first MD-81 in 1980, following on from the ...

The MD-80 aircraft was once the workhorse of the American Airlines fleet. The skinny commercial jets were beloved by frequent flyers for their lack of a middle seat on one side of the cabin, and by ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Visitors to the newly renovated American Airlines’ C.R. Smith Museum can sit at the controls of an MD-80 cockpit. In a simulated operations center, they can make judgment calls ...

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was a successful 20th-century family of narrowbody twinjets, with almost 1,200 units produced from 1979 to 1999. Affectionately known by many as the 'Mad Dog,' these ...

American Airlines today donated one of its MD-80 aircraft to Tulsa Technology Center before a gathering of about 400 employees of the institutions, officials and guests at American's Tulsa Maintenance ...

American Airlines assured itself of a continuing supply of highly trained aircraft mechanics on Friday with its donation of a 142-seat McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft to Tulsa Technology Center's ...