{"id":294125,"date":"2025-10-01T05:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-some-airlines-still-love-boeing-717\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:03:34","slug":"its-2025-but-why-do-some-airlines-still-love-the-boeing-717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=294125","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 2025, But Why Do Some Airlines Still Love The Boeing 717?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525554\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 717<\/span><\/span> was once a popular five-abreast narrow-body aircraft that was initially marketed by McDonnell Douglas. In the early 1990s, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-717-story\/\" >McDonnell Douglas MD-95<\/a> was the aircraft&#8217;s initial name, before the company&#8217;s merger with Boeing in 1997. The aircraft was a derivative of the successful MD-80, and more broadly the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256242\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/dc-9\/\"  >DC-9<\/a><\/span> family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unveiling the mystery behind the Boeing 717&#8217;s enduring appeal among airlines.<\/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":[396,476,398,603,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-717","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294125","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=294125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294126,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294125\/revisions\/294126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}