Summary
- American Airlines recently received its fiftieth Boeing 737 MAX 8, nearly six years after its first MAX arrived.
- The airline plans to eventually operate a fleet of 130 MAXs, with 80 still to be delivered.
American Airlines took delivery of its fiftieth Boeing 737 MAX 8 last week. It has been almost six years since American welcomed its first MAX.
American inducts fiftieth MAX
The carrier reached the milestone of fifty 737 MAX 8s following the delivery of N319TE last week. The narrowbody flew from Boeing Field (BFI) in Seattle to American’s hub at Dallas/Fort Value International Airport (DFW) on July nineteenth.
The brand-new jet departed Boeing Field at 14:08, over two hours later than scheduled, and landed at Dallas/Fort Value at 19:29. That makes it eight 737 MAX deliveries for American in 2023, with six of those arriving because the starting of June.
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American welcomed the primary MAX 8 into its fleet in September 2017 and would operate over 20 MAXs by the top of 2018. Following the second MAX crash involving Ethiopian Airlines in March 2019, American would wait over 18 months for an additional MAX delivery, which eventually got here in December 2020.
The airline’s MAXs can seat as much as 172 passengers in a two-class configuration – 16 in business and 156 in economy.
Highest quarterly revenues, pilot negotiations
American posted its highest-ever quarterly revenues for Q2 2023, generating $14.1 billion – that is over $500 million greater than the identical period in 2022. Nonetheless, shares went down by 6% on the day of its earnings call after American provided an underwhelming guidance for the subsequent quarter.
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Moreover, in light of United Airlines’ cope with its pilots, American has raised its contract offer to its own pilots, inevitably adding to its operational costs – the brand new offer, matching United’s rates, will amount to around $9 billion over the subsequent 4 years. Its pilot union was resulting from vote on a previous offer by July twenty fourth, but has now suspended the ratification vote until “a date and time to be determined.”
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