American Airlines fleet

This article is about the mainline American Airlines fleet, including the historical fleets of American Airlines. For information about the fleet of American's regional operations, see American Eagle (airline brand).

American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER painted in Oneworld livery, taxiing at Los Angeles International Airport.

As of September 2015, American Airlines operates a mainline fleet of 943 aircraft, making it the largest commercial fleet in the world. It primarily operates a mix of Airbus and Boeing (including McDonnell Douglas) narrow-body and wide-body aircraft, as well as one narrow-body variant from Embraer. American is currently in the process of the largest fleet renewal in its history, with over 300 aircraft on order from Airbus and Boeing. American Airlines also announced a new livery to be painted on all aircraft. American Airlines expects to be done repainting all aircraft by the end of 2017.

Current fleet

All US Airways airframes were transferred to American Airlines on April 8, 2015 when a Single Operating Certificate was awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration.

American is the largest operator of Airbus A320 family aircraft in the world. It operates the largest fleet of A321 aircraft, and has the second largest A319 fleet, only behind easyJet. American also operates the fourth largest fleet of Boeing 737 Next Generation family aircraft worldwide (behind Ryanair, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines), while having the second largest fleet of the Boeing 737-800 variant (the only Next Generation variant used by American), trailing Ryanair.

The following table represents all American Airlines mainline fleet types and layouts in service (including US Airways airframes) as of March 2016.

American Airlines mainline fleet

Aircraft	In service	Orders	Passengers					Notes
			F	J	Y+	Y	Total
Airbus A319-100	125	—	12	—	—	112	124	All aircraft receiving new 128 configuration until July 2016.
			8	—	18	102	128
Airbus A320-200	54	—	12	—	—	138	150	Older aircraft being phased out; 51 to remain at the end of 2016.
Airbus A321-200	180	39	16	—	—	171	187	Deliveries through 2017. Replacing Domestic 757. Largest operator of the A321.
			16	—	32	133	181
			10	20	36	36	102	Used on transcontinental routes JFK-LAX/JFK-SFO
Airbus A321neo	—	100	TBA					Deliveries begin in 2019.
Airbus A330-200	15	—	—	20	—	238	258	To be retrofitted with new Premium Economy class.
Airbus A330-300	9	—	—	28	—	263	291
Airbus A350-900	—	22	TBA					Deliveries begin in 2017.
Boeing 737-800	270	34	16	—	30	114	160	Replacing MD-80.
Boeing 737 MAX 8	—	100	TBA					Deliveries begin in 2017.
Boeing 757-200	57	—	14	—	—	176	190	LUS Domestic configuration; Being phased out and replaced by A321.
			24	—	52	108	184	LAA Domestic configuration; Being phased out and replaced by A321.
			22	—	52	108	182
			—	12	—	164	176	LUS International configuration; to be retrofitted with new lie-flat Business Class seats & Wi-Fi.
			—	16	52	108	176	LAA International configuration, to be retrofitted with lie-flat Business Class seats & Wi-Fi.
Boeing 767-300ER	40	—	—	30	21	167	218	25 aircraft retrofitted with 209 seat configuration with fully lie-flat Business Class seats. All others to be phased out by 2017
			—	28	25	156	209
Boeing 777-200ER	47	—	16	37	—	194	247	All aircraft will receive 260 seat configurations by the end of 2016, then to be retrofitted with new Premium Economy class
			—	45	45	170	260
Boeing 777-300ER	20	—	8	52	30	220	310	First operator of the 777-300ER in America. To be retrofitted with new Premium Economy class.
Boeing 787-8	15	5	—	28	48	150	226	To be retrofitted with new Premium Economy class.
Boeing 787-9	—	22	TBA					Deliveries begin in 2016.
Embraer 190	20	—	11	—	—	88	99
McDonnell Douglas MD-82	42	—	16	—	30	94	140	61 MD-80 aircraft will be retired in 2016, with remainder to be retired by the end of 2017.
McDonnell Douglas MD-83	51	—	16	—	30	94	140
Total	945	322

Special liveries

Registration	Livery	Aircraft	Source
N742PS	Pacific Southwest Airlines Heritage Livery	Airbus A319
N744P	Piedmont Airlines Heritage Livery
N745VJ	Allegheny Airlines Heritage Livery
N838AW	America West Heritage Livery
N578UW	US Airways Heritage Livery	Airbus A321
N837NN	Oneworld Livery	Boeing 737-800
N838NN
N915NN	TWA Heritage Livery
N916NN	Reno Air Heritage Livery
N917NN	Air Cal Heritage Livery
N951AA	American Astrojet Heritage Livery
N905AN	American Flagship Liberty on old (1968-2013) livery
N174AA	Oneworld livery	Boeing 757-200
N351AA	American Spirit of San Francisco partial on old (1968-2013) livery	Boeing 767-300ER
N343AN	Oneworld Livery
N791AN		Boeing 777-200ER
N796AN
N9405T	American Flagship Tulsa partial on old (1968-2013) livery	McDonnell Douglas MD-83

Fleet history

Notes:

• Eight Boeing 377s and seven Lockheed L-049 Constellations served in American Overseas Airways' transatlantic service and were acquired by Pan American World Airways.
• In early 1970 before AA took delivery of its own Boeing 747, the company leased two Pan Am 747-121s. These aircraft were painted in full AA livery, and were operated until early 1971, then returned to Pan Am after AA received its own new 747-123s.
• After American acquired Trans Caribbean Airways (TCA) in 1971, the company briefly owned TCA's fleet of five Douglas DC-8s (three -50s & two -61s). These aircraft were never operated by AA and were sold to other carriers. American continued to operate Boeing 727-200 aircraft that were previously flown by TCA.
• American operated a small fleet of five Convair 440 prop aircraft from the mid-1970s to 1980 in the Caribbean via a wholly owned subsidiary, American Inter-Island Airlines. Scheduled passenger service was operated between San Juan, St. Thomas and St. Croix until runway improvements were completed at St. Thomas thus permitting a return of American jet service following the crash of a Boeing 727-100 operating as American Airlines Flight 625 at St. Thomas (STX) on April 27, 1976. There is a small exhibit commemorating American Inter-Island at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum near Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport.
• Most Boeing 747–100 wide body aircraft were retired from passenger service in the late 1970s and served as freighters until their final retirement in 1985. Several were retired earlier with NASA acquiring one of the early retired aircraft in 1974 and then modifying it as a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) in order to transport Space Shuttle Orbiter Vehicles. Early in its NASA career, the aircraft, N905NA, continued to carry the American Airlines tricolor cheatline before eventually being repainted.
• American briefly operated a Boeing 747-200C freighter for six months in 1984.
• Twenty-one Boeing 737-100/200/300s and eight British Aerospace BAe 146-200 aircraft that were operated between 1987 and 1992 were acquired with the assets of AirCal and primarily operated from AA's hub at San Jose International Airport.
• American briefly operated five McDonnell Douglas MD-87s and five MD-90s acquired through its takeover of Reno Air.
• American Airlines was the largest passenger McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operator before retiring this wide body type in 2000, operating a total of 55 DC-10-10s and 11 DC-10-30s.
• After acquiring Trans World Airlines (TWA), American operated 28 Boeing 717-200 and 8 McDonnell Douglas MD-81 aircraft between 2001 and 2003. American sold off TWA's fleet of Boeing 757-200s and Boeing 767-300ERs.
• American Airlines retired its Airbus A300-600R wide body aircraft in August 2009 after 21 years of service. Afterwards, American was an exclusive Boeing operator (including McDonnell Douglas aircraft, due to its merger with Boeing in 1997) until 2013, when it took delivery of its first Airbus A319.
• Aircraft that were acquired through the merger with US Airways that weren't previously operated by American included the Airbus A320, A330-200, A330-300, and the Embraer 190.