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As of December 31, 2023, American operated a mainline fleet of 965 aircraft.
−Removed: 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.
+Added: During 2023, American accepted delivery of 31 mainline aircraft including 17 Boeing 737-8 MAX, 10 Airbus A321neo and four Boeing 787-8 aircraft and returned nine 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, 2023, American Eagle operated 556 regional aircraft.
−Removed: 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.
+Added: During 2023, we increased our regional fleet by a net of 20 aircraft, including the addition of 83 regional aircraft, the return of 55 regional aircraft to third-party regional carriers and temporarily parking eight regional aircraft.
As of December 31, 2023, American’s mainline fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
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Boeing 737-800 172 14.1 132 171 303
−Removed: 172 12.8 123 171 294
Boeing 737-8 MAX 172 3.2 26 33 59
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Total 12.9 495 470 965
−Removed: (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, 2023, 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
+Added: Bombardier CRJ 200 50 — — 40 40 Air Wisconsin 40
Bombardier CRJ 700 (1)
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Embraer 170 (1)
−Removed: 65 2 6 13 21 Republic 13
+Added: 65 6 23 5 34 Envoy 29
Embraer 175 76 108 — 102 210 Envoy 108
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(1) Excluded from the total operating aircraft count above are 77 regional aircraft that are being held in temporary storage as follows:
−Removed: 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.
+Added: 57 owned Embraer 145, seven owned and four leased Bombardier CRJ 700, six owned Bombardier CRJ 900 and three leased Embraer 170.
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.
Aircraft and Engine Purchase Commitments
−Removed: As of December 31, 2022, we had definitive purchase agreements for the acquisition of the following aircraft (1) :
−Removed: 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Total
+Added: As of December 31, 2023, we had definitive purchase agreements for the acquisition of the following new aircraft (1) :
+Added: 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 and Thereafter Total
A320neo Family 3 21 35 5 — — 64
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787 Family 6 5 4 5 5 5 30
+Added: 175 12 — — — — — 12
Total 41 59 60 10 5 5 180
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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.
+Added: As of December 31, 2023, we had committed to purchase two used Airbus A321neo aircraft which were delivered in January 2024.
+Added: We had also committed to purchasing six used Embraer 175 aircraft, which are currently flown under a capacity purchase agreement with a third-party regional carrier and which are already included in our aircraft count.
We also have agreements for 44 spare engines to be delivered in 2024 and beyond.
−Removed: 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.
−Removed: 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 2024 and beyond, except for five Boeing 787 Family aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2024.
+Added: We have financing commitments in place for all aircraft scheduled to be delivered in 2024, except for three Airbus A320neo Family aircraft and two Embraer 175 aircraft.
+Added: 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 relevant financing counterparty of its obligations thereunder.
See Part I, Item 1A.
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