[cheme]

Excuse me for not being "in the know", but what is so special about this airplane. It looks like it will replace the 727 to me, but I am not an airplane guy; however, I do have a VFR private pilot license.

[COEXERJ145]

It is the last in the line of the great Douglas and McDonnell Douglas commercial aircraft.

It was renamed the 717 (originally the MD-95) after Boeing purchased McDonnell Douglas.

[El Gato]

Excuse me for not being "in the know", but what is so special about this airplane. It looks like it will replace the 727 to me, but I am not an airplane guy; however, I do have a VFR private pilot license.

It's more in competition with the 737 than the 727. The 727 is being and has mostly been, replaced by the 757s.

I prefer the 737 over the DC-9 family (DC-9, MD-80, MD-90, 717) if for no other reason than they "feel" more open, and I don't feel quite so much like spam in a can, or a sardine without the oil.