It's the end of an era for an aviation workhorse.
American is underperforming Delta and United Airlines on profit margins and on-time arrivals, passengers are up in arms over cancellations, and investors are punishing American’s stock price.
“My husband used to say, ‘I can tell you’ve been flying the Super 80 because you are yelling when you are talking,’ ” said Jennifer Brissette, a 23-year flight attendant at American. Neil Roghair, an American pilot who flew Mad Dogs earlier in his career, recalls that it was a struggle to learn to land the MD-80 well, and it wasn’t a good plane at high altitudes.
“It’s almost as if they built the airplane and, at the very end, finished up and said, ‘We forgot to put the compass in,’ ” Kent Wien, an American captain who used to fly the MD-80, said in a video posted online about the plane. “It’s a relatively goofy system, but it worked.”The MD-80 had other quirks.
Nonetheless, more than 1,100 American employees signed up to fly the Mad Dog on one of its final flights. Unable to accommodate the free trips, the carrier instead provided commemorative boarding passes for the MD-80.
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