For the price of $62,500 would you like to sleep in the first 40 feet of a McDonnell Douglas MD-88? One of the weirdest things you can do to any sort of vehicle is bolt the fuselage of a plane to it.

It subsequently built a series of variants – MD-80, MD-88, MD-90 and MD-95. The number of seats rose from about 90 to 158, before a cutback to 134 on the MD-95. Boeing took over McDonnell ...

The decision to remove the MD-90s comes as the carrier is on pace to retire its Boeing MD-88 fleet by 2020. Delta will remove nearly 40 aircraft this year, putting it on track to operate roughly ...

The MD-90 removal last week was the first reduction to Delta's fleet of former McDonnell Douglas twin-jets since it wrote off an MD-88 (MSN 49540) following a runway excursion in March 2015.