Getting back to the original topic, the DC-9 flies everywhere. If you look at DTW A terminal, 50% of the gates are for DC-9's. A NW pilot once told me that they were tanks, hard to **** up and you can expect them in service through 2015. They also make up about 40% of NW's fleet. (Owned) As someone who flies them every week, I get tired of them, would rater have the non-stop to MEM on the AVRO, but a FC in a DC9 beats a seat in a CO RJ any day of the week..

just to add... they got B712 interiors during the heavy maintenance checks.

I hope there is a plan to update the first class seats though. They could use a lot more padding.....not the wooden kind.

Bingo. That has always been my way of identifying that I am on a D9-10. I also count the FC seats, but no lav door is the real tipoff as you enter the aircraft.

I get them not infrequently MEM-SDF, as recently as last week.

Sllevin- looks like great minds think alike ... you beat me to the previous post by about 2 minutes.

Just another tidbit about the DC-9-10... although it has fewer First seats than the -30, your upgrade numbers should be better on the smaller plane. Its ratio of 14F:64Y beats the -30's 16F:84Y, and every other plane in the domestic fleet, except the beloved Avro, of course.

It's been a while but I have flown the DC-9-10's DTW-CMH as well as DTW-ABE.

For you folks wanting to know what type of equipment you are flying but are not sure, simply look at the emergency procedures card in your seat pocket.

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I was on one last year YYZ-DTW on a weekend. I didn't realize I should have made a note - for some reason I remember it because it was so small and we were so late.

Per MileageAddict's post, the seat pocket card won't help you distinguish between the 30, 40 and 50, as I believe it says "DC-9 30/40/50 Series". But I believe you're right on the -10, it's got a different card because of the single overwing exits.

Alright, in an attempt to stay on topic, and since I've got nothing better to do at 3:00am, here are the DC-9-10 routes out of each NW hub... of course, this doesn't cover the occasional equipment downgrade or other schedule oddities, but here goes nothin':

From DTW to: (and daily DC-9-10 ops)
Allentown/Bethlehem (1)
Kalamazoo (3)
Birmingham (1)
Cleveland (2)
Columbus (1)
Cincinnati (1)
Flint (1)
Lansing (3)
Saginaw (2)
Harrisburg (1)
Pittsburgh (1)
Richmond (1)
Rochester (1)
St. Louis (1)


From MEM (sidenote: jeez, this place has really been scaled back... it's a lot more obvious when you see the aircraft types on the schedule than when you see it written here, or even when you pass through there)to:
Birmingham (1)
Ft. Walton Beach (1)
St. Louis (1)

and from MSP to:
Columbus (1)
Cincinnati (1)
St. Louis (2)


My apologies if I missed any... the eyes tend to glaze over right around the last MEM bank...

DTW to Madison, Wisc is a DC9 as well. I fly the CMH/DTW/Madison route once every year.

By the way, I couldn't remember the airport code for Madison and typed in MAD. I got airfares of $782 back and thought "Wow, NW is pricing flights like Continental!" Then I saw that they were KLM flights. How odd! Of course, a closer look revealed that MAD is Madrid, Spain. The perils of arranging online flights when you haven't had at least two cups of coffee.

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Madison = MSN.

Just looked up my wife's flight - she's going to be on a 9-10 DTW to ROC in about 2 hours...

...not that she would know, or care. She just wants to get where shes going. She even tolerates jungle jets without complaint. But then again, she likes aisle seating...

One way to tell if you're on a DC-9-30 but not -40 or -50 is if a flight attendant whines that management reduced flight attendant staffing from 3 to the FAA minimum of 2.

This is a true story (MEM-DFW).

[This message has been edited by JS (edited Feb 26, 2004).]

Happens on alot of -30 flights

I have FOUR DC 9-10 flights in a row starting tomorrow with nw 1882/1920 from CMH to PIT via DTW and on the way back Thursday. They are alive and well (I hope!).