Originally Posted by
dilanesp
I read a story about how the 717, which had been a sales bust, is now a very hot property among airlines. It fills a niche.
Its great for high-frequency short hops. Hawaiian uses them inter-island and DL picked ‘em up for (I think mostly) west coast shuttle flights. DL and HA have most (all?) of them domestically, so I think they’re only a hot property for two airlines. I think DL was pretty smart in picking up the old AirTran fleet of them from WN. UA was out-thunk
