{"id":231216,"date":"2025-06-07T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-still-fly-boeing-717\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T05:00:15","slug":"why-does-delta-still-fly-its-26-year-old-boeing-717s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=231216","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Delta Still Fly Its 26-Year-Old Boeing 717s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 717 is a narrowbody regional commercial jet built until 2006. The need for a regional jet commercial aircraft niche is now filled by aircraft like Embraer&#8217;s E-Jets and Airbus A220s, as well as Bombardier CRJs until they were also discontinued in 2020. The Boeing 717 is <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2006864\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/douglas-dc-9-complete-guide\/\" >the last member of the DC-9 family of aircraft<\/a><\/span>, and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> has long been the largest operator of that family of aircraft. According to data provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Cirium<\/a>, Delta is scheduled to operate 12,648 Boeing 717 flights, offering 1.4 million seats in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta operates the bulk of the remaining Boeing 717s, and they are the last of Delta&#8217;s long-running fleet of DC-9 family aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,603,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-717","category-delta-air-lines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231217,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231216\/revisions\/231217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}