With this addition, the nearly 100-year-old company remains the largest commercial airline in the world.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 American Airlines celebrated a major milestone ahead of its 100-year anniversary, receiving its 1,000th mainline aircraft. The Fort Worth-based company now has more 1,000 planes actively flying for the first time ever.<\/p>\n
The aircraft is a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. It’s being used for routes between Chicago and London, Chicago to Los Angeles and Philadelphia to London.<\/p>\n
American Airlines has received eight 787-9 aircraft since April, with a total of 30 on order. The additional aircraft are intended to offer customers more international flights, including flights from DFW to Auckland, New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia and Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to grow our fleet, adding even more aircraft that offer customers a premium travel experience,\u201d said Heather Garboden, American Airlines Chief Customer Officer, in a statement. \u201cLooking forward to our next 100 years, we are focused on elevating and reimagining the onboard cabin experience along with every aspect of the customer travel journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
With this addition, American Airlines remains the largest commercial airline in the world. This comes ahead of the airline’s centennial, as it was founded in 1926.<\/p>\n
Mainline aircraft includes American Airlines’ entire fleet aside from American Eagle and Envoy aircraft, which are regional subsidiaries of American Airlines.<\/p>\n
According to FlightRadar24, United Airlines has the next largest fleet with 1,467 aircraft, more than 100 behind American Airlines’ fleet of 1,569 aircraft. Behind them is Delta Air Lines with a fleet of 1,293 aircraft, followed by Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, which has a fleet of 828 aircraft.<\/p>\n
American Airlines serves more than 200 million passengers every year and employs more than 103,000 staff members. It’s one of the largest employers in North Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With this addition, the nearly 100-year-old company remains the largest commercial airline in the world. FORT WORTH, Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-206631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115160898879414628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}