The most interesting aspect of this article from my POV was the idea that the 717s are considered to overlap with the F-100s AND that AA would prefer to keep the latter. Aren't those the planes with the nose-gear problems. From the article:

``The Fokkers still have many years of life left and they give us a lot of flexibility in terms of routes,'' Becker said. ``The oldest have been in our fleet for 10 or 11 years, so it's a relatively young fleet, a very good fleet and a very large fleet.''