Allegiant Airlines, low-cost leisure airline, has agreed to purchase 18 used MD-80 aircraft from Scandanavian Airlines Systems.  Allegiant anticipates the cost of integrating these 18 MD-80’s into their fleet to be about $4 million.  The aircraft will be delivered during the first three quarters of 2010 and will all be in service by the end [...]

American Airlines is under more pressure from FAA investigators who continue to look into fuselage issues with the large fleet of AA’s MD-80 series aircraft. 

Newspapers reported an incident in which an American Airlines MD-80 was found to be in such poor condition that it was not permitted to fly its scheduled flight and was ferried [...]

American Airlines continues to be investigated by the FAA over potential improper maintenance of their fleet of 244 MD-80 aircraft that makes up nearly 50% of American’s fleet.  You probably remember this going on for some time with very damaging groundings of MD-80’s for American and other airlines late last year.

American is also being investigated [...]