American Airlines fleet
The American Airlines fleet comprises aircraft operated by American Airlines on mainline services and regional aircraft flown under the American Eagle brand by wholly owned and contracted carriers. At 30 June 2026, American reported 1,030 mainline aircraft and 579 operating regional aircraft, a combined fleet of 1,609. The same disclosure recorded 373 aircraft on order across the mainline and regional programmes.[1]
Scope and counting method
American Airlines Group reports two operational populations. Mainline aircraft are operated by American Airlines itself. Regional aircraft fly as American Eagle under capacity-purchase arrangements and include equipment operated by the wholly owned Envoy Air, PSA Airlines and Piedmont Airlines, together with aircraft operated by Republic Airways and SkyWest Airlines.[2][3]
The 30 June 2026 fleet overview is the newest authoritative count used here. It groups mainline aircraft by family rather than subtype, but it provides a consistent 1,609-aircraft operating total and a current order-book total. Four CRJ900s in temporary storage were expressly excluded. Stored aircraft are not added to the operating total merely because American owns them.[1]
The audited 31 December 2025 Form 10-K supplies a more detailed subtype census. That table remains valuable for configurations, ownership and fleet composition, but it is presented as a historical reporting-date snapshot rather than being labelled current. Between the two dates, the mainline total rose from 1,013 to 1,030 and the regional total from 567 to 579.[2][1]
Current fleet by family
| Operating scope | Aircraft family or group | Aircraft at 30 June 2026 | Firm orders at that date | Included types |
| Mainline | Airbus A320 family | 487 | 167 | A319, A320, A321, A321neo and A321XLR |
| Mainline | Boeing 737 family | 406 | 115 | 737-800 and 737-8 in service; order family also includes 737-10 |
| Mainline | Boeing 777 family | 67 | — | 777-200ER and 777-300ER |
| Mainline | Boeing 787 family | 70 | 19 | 787-8 and 787-9 |
| Mainline total | 1,030 | 301 | ||
| American Eagle | Embraer E175 | 240 | 72 | Dual-class regional jet |
| American Eagle | Other regional aircraft | 339 | — | ERJ145, E170, CRJ700 and CRJ900 |
| Regional total | 579 | 72 | ||
| Combined total | 1,609 | 373 |
The order column is not a delivery forecast. Certification, production, substitutions and contractual delivery timing can change independently. In particular, the 737-family order total includes 737-10s, but the family description does not identify any 737-10 as an operating aircraft at the snapshot date.[1]
Mainline fleet
Airbus A320 family
The 487-aircraft Airbus group is American's largest mainline family. It spans the A319, A320 and A321ceo, the A321neo and the long-range A321XLR. The common family provides several capacity and mission categories without requiring an unrelated wide-body type for every thinner long-haul market.[1][4]
American received its first A321neo in February 2019. Airbus said 70 had been delivered by 31 January 2024, before the subsequent additions reflected in American's later filings. The A321XLR joined the fleet in October 2025 and entered scheduled service between New York and Los Angeles on 18 December. Its published American configuration has 20 Flagship Suite business seats, twelve premium-economy seats and 123 main-cabin seats, a total of 155.[5][6]
American has announced a cabin retrofit for its A319 and A320 aircraft, adding domestic first-class seats and updating interiors. This is a fleet programme and should not be used to assume that a particular registration has already received the modification.[7]
Boeing 737 family
The 406-aircraft Boeing narrow-body group consists operationally of 737-800s and 737-8s. The 737-800 is the older and larger established subfleet; American began a major delivery cycle in 2009 and used the type to replace less efficient narrow-body aircraft. The 737-8 provides the newer-generation counterpart.[1][8]
American's order book includes the 737-10. Its 2024 order covered 85 737-10s and converted 30 existing 737-8 positions to the larger variant. The announcement explicitly anticipated certification; an order is therefore recorded separately from the current operating fleet.[7]
Boeing 777 family
American operates the 777-200ER and 777-300ER. The family count was 67 at both 31 December 2025 and 30 June 2026. The audited subtype split was 47 777-200ERs and twenty 777-300ERs.[2][1]
The 777-300ER gives the fleet its highest-capacity long-haul configuration. American was the first United States airline to order that variant, initially exercising options for two aircraft in 2011. A separate cabin-modernisation programme is planned for the 777-300ER fleet; the programme should not be treated as completed for every airframe without registration-level evidence.[9][10]
Boeing 787 family
The 70-aircraft Dreamliner fleet consists of 787-8s and 787-9s. At 31 December 2025, the split was 37 787-8s and 33 787-9s; the later family total remained 70. American uses the family for long-haul flying, with cabin capacity varying by subtype and interior generation.[2][1][4]
New-build 787-9s introduced American's Flagship Suite interior in 2025. The airline marked delivery of its 1,000th mainline aircraft with one of these aircraft on 29 August 2025 and said eight new premium-configuration 787-9s had arrived since April. This milestone is not substituted for the later 1,030-aircraft fleet census.[11]
Detailed mainline snapshot at 31 December 2025
The year-end table is the most recent audited public subtype breakdown. “Operating” follows the Form 10-K definition; three owned A321XLRs in temporary storage were excluded from its 1,013-aircraft total.[2]
| Type | Average seats | Average age (years) | Owned | Leased | Operating total |
| Airbus A319 | 128 | 21.7 | 21 | 111 | 132 |
| Airbus A320 | 150 | 24.7 | 12 | 36 | 48 |
| Airbus A321 | 184 | 13.4 | 164 | 54 | 218 |
| Airbus A321neo | 195 | 4.8 | 49 | 35 | 84 |
| Airbus A321XLR | 155 | 0.1 | 2 | — | 2 |
| Boeing 737-800 | 172 | 16.1 | 138 | 165 | 303 |
| Boeing 737-8 | 172 | 3.7 | 56 | 33 | 89 |
| Boeing 777-200ER | 273 | 25.0 | 44 | 3 | 47 |
| Boeing 777-300ER | 304 | 11.8 | 18 | 2 | 20 |
| Boeing 787-8 | 234 | 7.1 | 20 | 17 | 37 |
| Boeing 787-9 | 271 | 5.6 | 23 | 10 | 33 |
| Total | 14.3 | 547 | 466 | 1,013 |
The average-seat column is a reporting average, not a guarantee for a particular flight. Cabin retrofits can create multiple layouts within the same subtype. American's own aircraft guide should be checked for the configuration assigned to a booked flight.[2][4]
American Eagle regional fleet
American Eagle is an operating brand rather than a single airline or aircraft owner. At 31 December 2025, 567 regional aircraft were in the reported operating fleet: 122 CRJ700s, 86 CRJ900s, 56 Embraer 170s, 232 Embraer 175s and 71 ERJ145s. The aircraft were distributed among Envoy, PSA, Piedmont, Republic and SkyWest according to type and capacity-purchase agreement.[2]
By 30 June 2026, the operating regional total had risen to 579. The E175 population was 240, while the combined ERJ145, E170, CRJ700 and CRJ900 population was 339. Four additional CRJ900s remained excluded in temporary storage. The change is reported at group level; it is not used to invent delivery or return dates for individual registrations.[1]
American's regional strategy is to increase the proportion of larger, dual-class jets and retire its remaining 50-seat single-class aircraft by the end of the decade. The 72-aircraft E175 order book at 30 June 2026 supports that direction, but future deliveries are not counted as operating aircraft.[7][3][1]
Orders and fleet renewal
At 30 June 2026, the 301-aircraft mainline order book comprised 167 Airbus A320-family aircraft, 115 Boeing 737-family aircraft and nineteen 787-family aircraft. A further 72 E175s formed the regional order book. These values supersede the 31 December 2025 purchase-commitment total for current order counts.[1][2]
The order book combines several distinct purposes: A321neos and 737-10s support domestic and short-haul upgauging; A321XLRs add long-range narrow-body capability; 787-9s renew and expand the wide-body fleet; and E175s replace smaller regional jets. The exact delivery schedule remains subject to manufacturer and regulatory factors.[7][6][2]
Fleet simplification and historic types
American's present mainline fleet is concentrated around two narrow-body families and two wide-body families. The structure reflects both long-term renewal and the consolidation of aircraft inherited through the US Airways merger.[1]
During the severe 2020 traffic reduction, American accelerated the retirement of its Airbus A330, Boeing 757, Boeing 767 and Embraer 190 fleets, while PSA retired its CRJ200s. The removals eliminated several cockpit, maintenance and cabin subfleets and left the mainline narrow-body operation centred on the A320 and 737 families.[12]
Historic association is kept separate from current structured relationships. A type previously flown by American or a predecessor should not appear as a present operation solely because it formed part of the combined fleet after the merger.
Registration and aircraft-level records
American mainline aircraft use United States N registrations. The family-level disclosures and aircraft guide do not provide a complete current register with manufacturer serial numbers, delivery histories and daily status. No MSN, ownership state or serviceability has therefore been inferred from a registration pattern.
Individual-aircraft pages should connect a registration to its manufacturer serial number, first flight, delivery, previous operators, engines, cabin and dated status only when airframe-level sources support each field. Temporary storage exclusions in company filings demonstrate why ownership and operating status must be recorded separately.
Related pages
Sources
American fleet overview, 30 June 2026 — American Airlines Group
2025 Annual Report — American Airlines Group, filed 18 February 2026
American Airlines aircraft guide — American Airlines
Image source and licence: American Airlines Boeing 787-9 N827AN — Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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