American Airlines Group Inc. ordered 47 Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners for long-range flying, expanding its fleet of the advanced carbon-composite jetliners and hurting Airbus SE\u2019s ambitions to expand its wide-body aircraft sales in the US.<\/p>\n
In a related move, American cancelled an order for 22 of Airbus\u2019s twin-aisle A350 jets, a purchase placed by predecessor carrier US Airways, according to a statement Friday. The Boeing deal is worth a total of $12.3 billion before customary discounts.<\/p>\n
The move underscores the difficulty that Airbus has faced in the US–the largest aviation market and a Boeing stronghold. The Dreamliner deal marks the second time this year that Boeing has convinced an Airbus wide-body customer in the US to switch to the 787. Hawaiian Airlines, the sole customer for Airbus\u2019s A330-800, decided last month to order 10 Dreamliners instead.<\/p>\n
Adding more of the fuel-efficient Boeing aircraft will allow American to simplify its fleet and shed some of its oldest long-range jets.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a difficult decision between the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 and A330neo,\u201d Robert Isom, American\u2019s president, said in the statement. \u201cIn the end, our goal to simplify our fleet made the 787 a compelling choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the plan, American will reduce the number of wide-body aircraft types it flies to three from five, reducing maintenance and training costs. American previously said the number of A350s it had ordered was too small for it to operate profitably. It already plans to shed another small fleet of 20 Embraer SA E190 jets. American had delayed taking the A350s in both 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n
The deal includes 22 787-8s, the smallest member of the jet family, and 25 of the 787-9 variant — more than doubling American\u2019s fleet of Dreamliners, Boeing\u2019s most-advanced aircraft. All of the new 787s will be powered with General Electric Co.\u2019s GEnx-1B engines.<\/p>\n
The 787-8s will begin arriving in 2022, followed a year later by the first of the 787-9s, the carrier said. American will use the planes to replace aging Boeing 767-300s and, later, its Airbus A330-300s and the oldest of its Boeing 777-200s.<\/p>\n
American also deferred delivery of 40 Boeing 737 Max narrow-body planes to between 2025 and 2026. The aircraft originally were to arrive in 2020-2022. The deferral will better match future planned retirements, the carrier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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