American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) will retire its MD-80s by the end of September 2019, CEO Doug Parker said during the Annual General Meeting.

"Super 80 is scheduled to leave the American Airlines fleet at the end of September," Parker said.

The carrier previously said that the MD-80s will be phased out by the end of the year. American Airlines is replacing the aircraft with A321-200neos and B737-8s, although the deliveries of the latter type are currently suspended due to the global grounding.

According to the ch-aviation fleets module, American Airlines currently operates only one MD-82 and twenty-seven MD-83s. All McDonnell Douglas (Long Beach) twinjets are based out of Dallas/Fort Worth. The MD-82 is 29.7 years old and the MD-83s are 20.4 years old on average.

During the same AGM, Parker revealed that American Airlines estimates the impact of the grounding of the MAX 8s at USD350 million through mid-August 2019. The airline has already extended the grounding through September 3 for crew rostering purposes, although Parker underlined that this does not mean that an earlier resumption of the type's flights was not possible, subject to FAA clearance.