{"id":1786,"date":"2017-12-04T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2017-12-12T07:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T13:05:25","slug":"will-boeing-bring-back-the-717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Will Boeing bring back the 717?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a great article about the Boeing 717 jet. There were only 156 Boeing 717&#8217;s built, but their operators would love to get their hands on more of them. The aircraft today is mainly being operated by\u00a0Delta, Qantas, Hawaiian, and the Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea.<\/p>\n<p>AirTran Airways operated more than half of the Boeing 717&#8217;s that were manufactured. They operated a fleet of 88 when it was announced that they would be acquired by Southwest Airlines in September of 2010. Southwest, eager to maintain there single aircraft type fleet of 737&#8217;s, later sold all of their inherited 717&#8217;s to Delta Air Lines.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the story referenced above at the link below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/boeing-jet-no-one-wanted-145300455.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boeing 717<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also read about Delta&#8217;s acquisition of the Airtran 717&#8217;s\u00a0at this link&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/delta-to-take-southwests-717s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delta acquires 717&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1787\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Volotea-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Volotea-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Volotea-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Volotea.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a great article about the Boeing 717 jet. There were only 156 Boeing 717&#8217;s built, but their operators would love to get their hands on more of them. The aircraft today is mainly being operated by\u00a0Delta, Qantas, Hawaiian, and the Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea. AirTran Airways operated more than half of the Boeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[483,484,41,489,246,294,486,488,491,493,495,490,492,494,485,186,487],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-483","tag-airtran","tag-boeing","tag-dc-9","tag-delta","tag-douglas","tag-hawaiian","tag-mcdonald","tag-md-80","tag-md-90","tag-md-95","tag-md80","tag-md90","tag-md95","tag-qantas","tag-southwest","tag-volotea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}