Delta retires MD-90 ahead of McDonnell Douglas fleet drawdown
Delta Air Lines has retired its first Boeing MD-90, as it prepares to begin a 3-year drawdown of its MD-88 fleet. The aircraft was withdrawn from service June 23. The MD-90 was one of the first two delivered to launch customer Delta in March 1995. Delta has no immediate plans to retire the remaining 64 MD-90s in its fleet, a spokesman says. The airline is still on track to remove its 116 MD-88s by 2020. The aircraft will be replaced by the larger 122 Airbus A321s that it has on order, including the 10 it added to its orderbook during the Paris air show earlier in June. The aircraft retirement last week was the first reduction to Delta's fleet of former McDonnell Douglas twin-jets since it wrote off an MD-88 following a runway excursion in March 2015. <br/>
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Delta retires MD-90 ahead of McDonnell Douglas fleet drawdown
Delta Air Lines has retired its first Boeing MD-90, as it prepares to begin a 3-year drawdown of its MD-88 fleet. The aircraft was withdrawn from service June 23. The MD-90 was one of the first two delivered to launch customer Delta in March 1995. Delta has no immediate plans to retire the remaining 64 MD-90s in its fleet, a spokesman says. The airline is still on track to remove its 116 MD-88s by 2020. The aircraft will be replaced by the larger 122 Airbus A321s that it has on order, including the 10 it added to its orderbook during the Paris air show earlier in June. The aircraft retirement last week was the first reduction to Delta's fleet of former McDonnell Douglas twin-jets since it wrote off an MD-88 following a runway excursion in March 2015. <br/>
