Aircraft
American Airlines Adds A330-200s to Fleet Cuts
Along with more fleet cuts, American Airlines plans to defer deliveries of eighteen Boeing 737 Maxes originally due for delivery next year.
An American Airlines Airbus A330-200 takes off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by airlines470)
An American Airlines Airbus A330-200 takes off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by airlines470)

American Airlines has added its Airbus A330-200s to the list of aircraft types it now plans to permanently retire due to demand erosion from the Covid-19 pandemic, the company said Thursday ahead of its third-quarter earnings call. The airline has already retired 150 airplanes in a fleet streamlining effort that saw it shed its Boeing 757s and 767s, Embraer E190s, Airbus A330-300s, Bombardier CRJ200s, and “certain other” regional aircraft. Out of a fleet of 1,350 airplanes, some 200 sit grounded due to the pandemic.