Trip Report | Flying the Boeing 717 with Delta! - Newark to Minneapolis

Hey guys!
Today I am flying with Delta Air Lines for the first time, on the Boeing 717 (also a first for me!) on a super early flight from Newark to Minneapolis! I also got to fly out of the wonderful new Terminal A in Newark, and enjoyed nice views along the whole route. It was great to get the chance to fly the Boeing 717 now, since Delta will likely start retiring them from their fleet soon, and replacing them with the Airbus A220.
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Date: 12 April, 2024
Route: Newark (EWR/KEWR) - Minneapolis (MSP/KMSP)
Flight: DL1641
Aircraft: Boeing 717
Registration: N893AT
Flight Time: 2:09
Seat: 17E
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[@WQ94]

I once flew on a Delta - Boeing 717 from Chicago to Detroit. Never knew they flew 717 on such a long route! Great Trip report.

[@FlyingDoctor60]

I fly on Delta’s 717s two or three times a month, usually in or out of ATL. The ventilation system is the noisiest I have even encountered in over 50 years of traveling, but noise-cancelling earbuds take care of it. For regional flights I vastly prefer the 717 to any of the CRJ variants or the EMB 135/145.

[@daleferber2096]

That is because the 717 and the MD-80 it was derived from are FAST. I remember maybe 6 years ago, the first time I flew on an American CRJ, one morning out of Mobile to Charlotte, It had apparently sat on the ramp overnight the thing looked to me like a big Gulfstrream, , the crew showed up and was waiting in the gate area for the ground crew to do what ever and I went over to chat, and asked them how fast they thing went, figuring the answer would be something like .87 mach, at least .84, numbers real common for a biz jet of that size and was shocked when they told me IIRC .76 , which is way, way slower that an MD/717 cruises at

[@daleferber2096]

I don't know how many of this airframe Delta had to begin with but they got a LOT of them via the Northwest merger who had them and actual MD 80 series airframes in huge numbers.
In 2017 I was flying into Mobile from ATL and they swapped in an actual MD airframe, the last time I ever flew one. in 2020 I flew from ATL to Dallas and back in a 717.

[@daleferber2096]

Because Boeing quit building the 717, Delta is replacing them with A-220's
They are hardly the only airline doing that.

[@FDAviation]

At least were still gonna have them around for a while, Delta is planning on retirement at the end of next year