Editing Boeing 717 (section)

== Operators ==
{{Main|List of Boeing 717 operators}}

{{as of|2024|11}}, there are 99 Boeing 717s in service with [[Delta Air Lines]] (80) and [[Hawaiian Airlines]] (19){{Citation needed|date=May 2025}} down from 148 aircraft in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Airline Census 2018 |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/asset/24536 |access-date=August 21, 2018 |website=Flightglobal.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Delta Air Lines is the largest operator of the 717, flying over 70 percent of all in-service jets as of 2024. In 2013, Delta began leasing the entire fleet of 88 jets previously operated by [[AirTran Airways]] from [[Southwest Airlines]], who had purchased AirTran, but wanted to preserve its all-Boeing 737 fleet rather than taking on another class of aircraft.<ref name="delta_717s">{{Cite web |title=Delta to Add Boeing 717 Aircraft to its Fleet |url=http://www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com/2012/05/delta-to-add-boeing-717-aircraft-to-its-fleet/ |website=frequentbusinesstraveler.com}}</ref>  For Delta, used Boeing 717 and MD-90s allowed them to retire their DC-9s while also being cheaper to acquire than buying brand-new jets from Airbus or Boeing. Unlike other mainline US legacy carriers, Delta has decided that its best path to profitability is a strategy that utilizes older aircraft, and Delta has created a very extensive MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) organization, called TechOps, to support them.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 10, 2011 |title=A Look at Delta Air Lines Fleet and Buying Nine MD-90s |url=http://www.airlinereporter.com/2011/03/a-look-at-delta-air-lines-fleet-and-buying-nine-md-90s/}}</ref>

In 2015, [[Blue1]] announced it would sell its 717 fleet, with five jets going to Delta and four going to the then third largest operator of the type, [[Volotea]], a Spanish low-cost carrier.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Finland's Blue to offload B717 fleet to Volotea, Delta |url=http://ch-aviation.com/portal/news/35651-finlands-blue-to-offload-b717-fleet-to-volotea-delta |website=ch-aviation}}</ref> In January 2021, Volotea then retired their last of formerly 19 Boeing 717s. It was the last remaining European operator of the type.<ref name="717retirement">{{Cite web |last=Macca |first=Marco |date=January 11, 2021 |title=Volotea: The End of The Boeing 717 in Europe |url=https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/volotea-the-end-of-the-boeing-717-in-europe/ |access-date=January 11, 2021 |website=Airways Magazine |language=en-US |archive-date=January 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111160335/https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/volotea-the-end-of-the-boeing-717-in-europe/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Orders and deliveries ===
[[File:B717 Orders Deliveries.jpg|left|500px]]
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|+ Orders and deliveries<ref>{{Citation |title=717 Orders and Deliveries |url=http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/displaystandardreport.cfm?cboCurrentModel=717&optReportType=AllModels&cboAllModel=717&ViewReportF=View+Report |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112163907/http://active.boeing.com/commercial/orders/displaystandardreport.cfm?cboCurrentModel=717&optReportType=AllModels&cboAllModel=717&ViewReportF=View+Report |publisher=Boeing |archive-date=January 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://www.boeing.com/commercial/#/orders-deliveries Orders & Deliveries (search)] Boeing</ref>
|- style="background:#007000;"
! !! Total !! 2006 !! 2005 !! 2004 !! 2003 !! 2002 !! 2001 !! 2000 !! 1999 !! 1998 !! 1997 !! 1996 !! 1995
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! Orders
| 155 || – || – || 8 || 8 || 32 || 3 || 21 || – || 41 || – || – || 42
|-
! Deliveries
| 155 || 5 || 13 || 12 || 12 || 20 || 49 || 32 || 12 || – || – || – || –
|}
{{clear}}