Originally Posted by
EdGrimley
It's interesting to see Americans fleet plan numbers. Not that many more pilots but a quite a few more planes. I nice cache of widebodies to boot. I think even after retiring a number of aircraft they will still have well over 900 mainline airplanes. Anybody else have any numbers on this?
777-200: There are no planned changes to the 47 Boeing 777-200 aircraft in its fleet.
777-300ER: American will take delivery of one new aircraft in the first and fourth quarters of this year. With these two new additions, American will have 18 777-300ER aircraft in its fleet.
AA-787-3
787-8: American is due to take delivery of three Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners every quarter of this year. If all goes according to plan, American will have a strong fleet of 12 787s by the end of the year.
American Airlines' 2015 Fleet Plan
But have you seen their Debt numbers going forward?
About $19 Billion to pay for all those new 787's.