Quoting Flighty ( Reply 48 ): As would quite a lot more
DC9 descendents. They weren't selling *that* well. Taking the last decade of MD -80/90 orders (1989-1998), there were about 493 total MD -80/90/95 (aka 717) orders. In the same period, there were 1979 737 orders, just over four times as many. If you take away 1989, which was the last big MD -80 order year, and ...