Originally Posted by
jtrain609
United owns 635 of their 777 mainline aircraft. That's about 80%.
Delta owns around 700 of their 900 aircraft. That's about 77%.
JetBlue owns around 210 of 260 aircraft. That's about 80%.
All the data is available in the respective airline 10K filings.
That doesn’t paint the whole picture. When you say owned, most of those that are “owned” are still financed and have payments due. Only about 1/3 of JetBlue’s planes are unencumbered. The rest that are “owned” still have loan payments due. I don’t know what the split is for the legacies on the number of planes that are unencumbered, but AA says it has $10bn worth of unencumbered assets and DL says it has about $20bn worth, for whatever that’s worth. Still, aircraft rent/finance payments are a small percentage of operating costs.