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SkyWest Airlines (OO, Salt Lake City) will order nineteen new E175s from Embraer (EMB, Sao Jose dos Campos) to operate under the United Express banner after reaching an agreement with United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare).

"SkyWest is coordinating with its major airline partners to optimise the timing of upcoming fleet deliveries under this and previously announced agreements," the airline said.

These aircraft for United Airlines will be delivered in 2024 (four), 2025 (seven), and 2026 (eight). SkyWest currently has four E175s due from the Brazilian manufacturer for its operations on behalf of Delta Air Lines (three with deliveries in 2023 and 2024) and American Airlines (one in 2025).

The ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows that SkyWest currently operates 235 E175s. It owns 205 of these aircraft, deploying them under capacity purchase agreements with Alaska Airlines (42), American Airlines (20), Delta Air Lines (78), and United Airlines (65). The remaining thirty aircraft are placed with SkyWest Airlines by United Airlines (25) and Delta Air Lines (five)....

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American Airlines eyes new narrowbody order

American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) is in discussions with both Airbus and Boeing about a large narrowbody order covering the carrier's fleet requirements in the second half of the 2020s and the 2030s.

"Looking beyond 2024, we continue to review our medium and long-term fleet needs, and we are currently engaged with Boeing and Airbus for narrowbody aircraft deliveries in the latter half of this decade and beyond," Chief Financial Officer Devon May said during a recent quarterly earnings call.

The airline's present-day narrowbody fleet comprises 133 A319-100s, forty-eight A320-200s, 218 A321-200s, seventy A321-200NX, fifty-five B737-8s, and 303 B737-800s. It has a further four A321-200NX and seventy-five B737-8s on order. Four more narrowbodies will deliver by the end of 2023, followed by two more delayed until early 2024.

American also recently acquired ten A321-200NX from Alaska Airlines (AS, Seattle Tacoma International), deliveries of which are expected by the first quarter of 2024.

"Due to the young age of our fleet, we do...