Originally Posted by
ElfishPresley
I was told the MD would soon be removed from international flying, thus reducing the pilots needed on the fleet, even without parking any airframes. Something about the difficulty of distributing spare parts across the international destinations...
The MD was removed from international service before the pandemic. It was put back on some international flights within the past few years because it was needed. I don’t look at MD lines so I’m not sure how much international flying it does now.