Think your 30-year-old, red-tailed A330 is tired? We tracked where some of Qantas’s most beloved but oldest planes have ended up, from the Mojave desert to other big airlines. Take the ...

Take the retirement of QantasLink’s Boeing 717 fleet last year, and the phasing out of Dash 8 Q200 and Q300 aircraft. Within months buyers had emerged: 19 of the Boeing 717s – average age 23 ...

On September 2nd, 1998 the Boeing 717 took its very first flight. The jet was originally named the MD-95 as it was developed under McDonnell Douglas. However, with the company merging with Boeing ...

QanatsLink now has four Airbus A220-300s and will phase out its last Boeing 717 by the end of October. In October of 2024, Qantas announced the retirement of the 717s operating for Qantaslink on ...

The Boeing 717 has been a workhorse of Qantas’ domestic network since the flag carrier acquired Impulse Airlines back in 2001. Once adorned with Impulse’s blue livery (complete with giant cockatoo on ...

Aircraft VH-YQS arrived in Hobart for the last time on Wednesday morning. Image / Qantas (File) After years of faithful service, the final QantasLink Boeing 717 flight has touched down in Hobart for ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1998, the Boeing 717 took to the skies for the first time from Long Beach, California. The type began life as the McDonnell Douglas MD-95 and was first launched at the Paris Air ...

But did you know that Boeing once made an aircraft even smaller than the smallest 737 MAX 7 variant and had about the same number of seats as the 737-600? It's called the 717. This aircraft also ...