In normal times, special flights like Delta Air Lines’ retirement of the last McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft flying scheduled passenger service in North America are cause for celebration.

Delta Air Lines’ MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft were noisy, aging and nearing the end of their usefulness before the coronavirus outbreak. But the pandemic sped up the retirement of the "Mad Dog" jets, ...

The MD-88 was once a backbone of Delta Air Lines’ fleet, but the coronavirus downturn will see Delta accelerate retirement of the MD-88. Delta had 116 MD-88s in early 2017, but 47 at the end of last ...

Delta retired the last of its McDonnell Douglas aircraft Tuesday after carrying more than 750 million passengers on MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft. The last MD-88 flight, appropriately named Delta Flight 88 ...

A slew of Delta Air Lines passengers are all shaken up after a nearly catastrophic mid-flight engine failure forced a 32-year-old MD-88 to conduct an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International ...

A Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas MD-88 made an emergency landing at New York JFK International Airport and wound up in a grassy area after an indication of a problem with the aircraft’s hydraulic ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Delta Air Lines has retired its last McDonnell Douglas MD-88 airplane right here in Region 8 as it has with others in its fleet. According to CNN, the last MD-88 flight took ...

There are many things that one never wants to see out a plane window, and this is definitely one of them. In a video posted to Twitter by user Logan Webb, one of Delta Flight 1425’s engines can be ...

While US modification specialist Aeronautical Engineers’ recent activity has been primarily focused on Boeing 737-800 work, the company has received a request for an MD-88 cargo conversion. Everts Air ...

Delta Air Lines DAL operated 116 MD-88 “Mad Dog” aircraft at its peak through early 2017, but come July the last will leave the fleet. Delta is accelerating retirement of older aircraft during the ...