−Removed: Flight Equipment and Fleet Renewal
+Added: Flight Equipment
As of December 31, 2022, American operated a mainline fleet of 925 aircraft.
−Removed: During 2021, American accepted delivery of 25 mainline aircraft, temporarily parked 14 mainline aircraft and retired one mainline aircraft.
+Added: During 2022, American accepted delivery of 33 mainline aircraft including 24 Airbus A321neo and nine Boeing 787-8 aircraft and returned 27 mainline aircraft to service from temporary storage.
We are supported by our wholly-owned and third-party regional carriers that fly under capacity purchase agreements operating as American Eagle.
As of December 31, 2022, American Eagle operated 536 regional aircraft.
−Removed: During 2021, we increased our regional fleet by a net of 23 aircraft, including the addition of 52 regional aircraft, the retirement of 26 regional aircraft and temporarily parking three regional aircraft.
+Added: During 2022, we decreased our regional fleet by a net of 31 aircraft, including the addition of 38 regional aircraft, temporary parking of 59 regional aircraft and return of 10 regional aircraft.
As of December 31, 2022, American’s mainline fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
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Total 12.2 459 466 925
−Removed: (1) Excluded from the total operating aircraft count above are 36 owned Boeing 737-800 that are being held in temporary storage.
+Added: (1) Excluded from the total operating aircraft count above are nine owned Boeing 737-800 held in temporary storage as of December 31, 2022.
As of December 31, 2022, the fleet of our wholly-owned and third-party regional carriers operating as American Eagle consisted of the following aircraft:
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Carrier Number of
−Removed: Bombardier CRJ 700 65 54 7 82 143 SkyWest 82
−Removed: Bombardier CRJ 900 76 69 — 40 109 PSA 69
+Added: Bombardier CRJ 700 (1)
+Added: 65 40 2 80 122 SkyWest 80
+Added: Bombardier CRJ 900 (1)
+Added: 76 69 — 40 109 PSA 69
Embraer 170 (1)
−Removed: 65 — 6 8 14 Envoy 6
+Added: 65 2 6 13 21 Republic 13
Embraer 175 76 101 — 108 209 Envoy 101
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(1) Excluded from the total operating aircraft count above are 69 regional aircraft that are being held in temporary storage as follows:
−Removed: eight owned Embraer 145s and two owned Embraer 170s.
+Added: 40 owned Embraer 145, 14 owned and five leased Bombardier CRJ 700, four owned and two leased Embraer 170 and four owned Bombardier CRJ 900.
See Note 11 to AAG’s Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8A and Note 10 to American’s Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8B for additional information on our capacity purchase agreements with third-party regional carriers.
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As of December 31, 2022, we had definitive purchase agreements for the acquisition of the following aircraft (1) :
−Removed: 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 and Thereafter Total
+Added: 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Total
A320neo Family 2 5 19 29 5 60
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787 Family 4 12 9 4 5 34
−Removed: 175 3 — — — — — 3
Total 23 39 56 54 10 182
−Removed: (1) Delivery schedule represents our most current estimate as of the date of this report.
−Removed: Actual delivery dates are subject to change, which could be material, based on various potential factors including production delays by the manufacturer and regulatory concerns, such as those that have recently prevented The Boeing Company (Boeing) from timely delivering 787 Family aircraft.
−Removed: (2) On January 31, 2022, we entered into an amended purchase agreement with Boeing pursuant to which we agreed to purchase 23 additional Boeing 737 MAX Family aircraft through the conversion of existing purchase options.
−Removed: We also intend to exercise purchase options for an additional seven aircraft in 2022, bringing our total incremental firm order of Boeing 737 MAX Family aircraft to 30, with 15 of such aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2023 and 15 scheduled to be delivered in 2024.
−Removed: In addition, we entered into an amended purchase agreement with Boeing to defer the delivery of certain Boeing 787 Family aircraft previously scheduled to be delivered beginning in January 2023.
−Removed: Pursuant to this amendment, deliveries of these aircraft are now scheduled to commence in the fourth quarter of 2023 and will continue into 2027.
−Removed: The table above and the table in Part II, Item 7.
−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – “ Contractual Obligations ” reflect our purchase commitments after giving effect to these amendments and assumes our exercise of the seven 737 MAX Family aircraft purchase options mentioned above.
+Added: (1) Delivery schedule represents our best estimate as of the date of this report as described in footnote (e) to the “ Contractual Obligations ” table in Part II, Item 7.
+Added: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
+Added: Actual delivery dates are subject to change, which could be material, based on various potential factors including production delays by the manufacturer and regulatory concerns.
We also have agreements for 52 spare engines to be delivered in 2023 and beyond.
−Removed: We currently have financing commitments in place for all aircraft on order and scheduled to be delivered in 2022 except for five Airbus A320neo Family aircraft and three Embraer 175 aircraft.
+Added: We currently have financing commitments in place for all aircraft on order and scheduled to be delivered in 2023 except for 10 Boeing 737 MAX Family aircraft.
Our ability to draw on the financing commitments we have in place is subject to (1) the satisfaction of various terms and conditions including, in some cases, on our acquisition of the aircraft by a certain date and (2) the performance by the counterparty providing such financing commitments of its obligations thereunder.
−Removed: We do not have financing commitments in place for any of the aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2023 and beyond, except for seven Boeing 787 Family aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2023 and one Boeing 787 Family aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2024.
+Added: We do not have financing commitments in place for any of the aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2024 and beyond, except for five Boeing 787 Family aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2024.
See Part I, Item 1A.
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