American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) has taken delivery of its maiden B737-8. N324RA (msn 44459) was officially handed over by Boeing (BOE, Washington National) on Thursday, September 28, with a further three expected this year.

N324RA is scheduled to enter service on November 29 on the carrier's Miami International-New York La Guardia route. American is expecting to add a further sixteen B737 MAX 8s in 2018 followed by twenty more in 2019. American currently operates 299 B737-800s already according to the ch-aviaviation fleets database.