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Rear Airstair Question On DC-9,MD-80,90 And 717 Ac  
User currently offlineVirginA340 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 15 posts, RR: 0
Posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 2465 times:

Which airines that own DC-9, MD-80, MD-90 and 717 aircraft still have the rear airstairs? Does air tran have them on their DC09s and their new 717s. How about on TWA's 717s and their MD aircraft along with Legend's DC-9s?


"FUIMUS"
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User currently offlineIlyushin96M From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 2609 posts, RR: 14
Reply 1, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 2393 times:

All DC-9 and MD-80/90 series aircraft originally manufactured with airstairs (which they all were, I believe) still have them. I am unaware of any airline requesting these be deleted, or that it was an option to do so. The 717 is the first in this series of aircraft (BASIC design) NOT to have the rear airstairs, unless I am mistaken.

User currently offlineMD-90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 8418 posts, RR: 13
Reply 2, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 2379 times:

Does the 717 really not have rear airstairs? What a shame. I'd have thought that in keeping with the 717's rugged, go to any airport image, it'd have airstairs so that pax could board the aircraft without a stairs from the ground.

User currently offlineIflewrepublic From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 537 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 2373 times:

I believe they all have them, as deleting them, especially from the older models, would disrupt the integrity of the aircraft. The rear airstair is what made the DC-9 able to serve any small scale airport.

Iflewrepublic.


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User currently offlineVirginA340 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 15 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2356 times:

Hey guys; I found out throught www.twa.com that the airline's DC-9s, MD-80s, and 727s do have the air stairs but their 717 does not have the air stairs   Very sad.


"FUIMUS"
User currently offlineB777UA From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 155 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2351 times:

That is ture about the DC-9s, and only the -30 on up have the rear Stairs, but all of them have the fold out Stairs that deploy when the pax door is opened, if there are no Jetways. I thought that would be some help

User currently offlineAAR90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3410 posts, RR: 50
Reply 6, posted (12 years 10 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 2342 times:

>That is ture about the DC-9s, and only the -30 on
>up have the rear Stairs, but all of them have the
>fold out Stairs that deploy when the pax door is
>opened, if there are no Jetways. I thought that
>would be some help

No AA aircraft have the forward door fold out stairs. Ex-QQ aircraft have the stairs, but they have been disabled.



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