Nearly half a century after it became the first U.S. airline to fly twin-engine DC-9s, Delta Air Lines retired the last of those venerable airliners Monday.

Corporate travel, a mainstay of Delta’s business, is climbing and a recovery in international travel is under way as travel restrictions have fallen away.

Delta says it has flown a total of 305 DC-9s since 1965. In announcing the retirement of its last DC-9 jets, Delta notes it has removed or retired more than 350 aircraft from its fleet since 2008.

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Delta Air Lines is retiring its last DC-9s, the oldest passenger plane in the fleet of the big U.S. airlines. Delta operated the final passenger flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta Monday evening.

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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft will fly over the Central Valley as part of a collaborative scientific research mission. Valley residents might be able to catch a glimpse ...

MINNEAPOLIS | Delta Air Lines is retiring its last DC-9s, the oldest passenger plane in the fleet of the big U.S. airlines. The plane that will fly Delta's final scheduled DC-9 passenger flight is … ...

A roughly one-mile portion of W. Saginaw Highway between the I-69/96 interchange going west near the new Delta Crossings development will be rebuilt.

A Delta Airlines plane carrying 136 people nearly collided with a military jet Friday afternoon in a loss-of-separation incident outside the same DC airport where a mid-air collision took the ...

Another clear and cool night is expected with overnight lows dipping into the mid to upper 40s by Tuesday morning, no fog is expected with the dry air in place. This great stretch of weather will ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Delta Air Lines is retiring its last DC-9s, the oldest passenger plane in the fleet of the big U.S. airlines. The final passenger flight was planned for Minneapolis ...