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, ...

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 will stop flying MD-88 aircraft on a scheduled basis at New York’s LaGuardia Airport effective March 2. Delta will stop flying MD-88 aircraft on a scheduled basis at New York’s LaGuardia Airport ...

Junior pilots an Delta may have just discovered an easier route to a promotion: Just fly a loud, annoying plane that nobody else wants to. MD-88 jets, the last model in McDonnell Douglas’ MD-80 series ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pilots of the Delta Air Lines MD-88 that skidded off the runway at New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) on March 5 “did not sense any wheel brake deceleration” upon landing and were “unable to prevent ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a video showing the scene inside the cabin of a Delta Air Lines Boeing MD-88 during an evacuation at New York's LaGuardia airport in March ...

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 ...

Delta Air Lines is advancing the retirement date of its McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft to June 2. The Long Beach, California-built jets joined the Delta fleet in 1987 and also flew for Trans ...

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.