Tallying up all the Mad Dogs ever made.

Nobody wanted it. And when they got it, they didn’t love it much. They only tolerated it. It’s maker literally had to give it away at a below-cost price, and agree to take 100 percent of the risk in ...

American Airlines is retiring the last of its McDonnell Douglas MD-80 planes. The remaining 26 aircraft are in the process of taking their final flights to Roswell, New Mexico. The MD-80, also known ...

FILE PHOTO: An American Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 (N266AA) aircraft takes off at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Feb. 19, 2010. (Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer) As summer ...

ST. LOUIS — From as far south as Dallas and as far east and west as the coast will allow, it's taken St. Louisans just about anywhere they need to go. Today the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 made its final ...

As summer draws to a close, American Airlines is hastening the pace at which it sends aged McDonnell Douglas MD-80s to the aircraft boneyard. Five years into a revamp of its fleet, the world’s largest ...

A closer look at what what caused the MD-90's failure, and the factors that shaped its in-service history.

As summer draws to a close, American Airlines is hastening the pace at which it sends aged McDonnell Douglas MD-80s to the aircraft boneyard. Five years into a revamp of its fleet, the world's largest ...

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 ...

An era ended at American Airlines on Wednesday as the airline retired the remaining 26 planes of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 fleet to Roswell, New Mexico. Kerry Philipovitch, senior vice president of ...

American Airlines will retire its last 26 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft on September 24th. The MD-80, also known as the Super 80, was the workhorse of the airline’s fleet throughout the 1980s and ...