American Airlines Executive Summary

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American Airlines has a total of 930 mainline fleets and 604 regional fleets as of December 2016. American has the youngest fleet among US global network carriers, and they are expected to receive new deliveries shortly making it even younger. Annual report of American Airlines Group (2015), indicate that the average age of American and US Airways combined fleet is approximately 12 years as represented in figure one. Furthermore, it shows that as of December 31, 2014, out of American’s and US Airways’ combined mainline fleet, 510 aircraft are owned by AAG while 37 are capitol leased and 436 are under operational lease. American received 500 new fleets in the start of 2013 and another 127 in 2015. This year they are expected to take deliveries

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