American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has opted to purchase sixty-two A320-200s from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) with delivery scheduled between the first quarter of 2015 and the third quarter of 2017. In its SEC filing, the airline said that as a result of the decision, it had cancelled an existing lease financing arrangement for the jets.
American also announced it had converted firm orders for thirty Airbus A320neo aircraft into options. The jets were scheduled to have been delivered in 2021 and 2022.
As the integration process with US Airways (Phoenix Sky Harbor) steps up, American intends to retire twenty-six MD-80s, fourteen B737-400s, twenty-two B757-200s, five A320s and thirteen B767-200(ER)s by the end of the year replacing them with ten A319-100s, forty-two A321-200s, three A330-200s, twenty B737-800s, two B787-8s and six B777-300(ER)s.
