Alaska Airlines Now Counts 424 Planes With Hawaiian. Fewer Than 1 in 10 Have Two Aisles

Two years after buying Hawaiian, Alaska flies more than 400 planes, and it is still almost entirely a single-aisle airline.

Alaska Airlines and its sister carriers fly 424 planes. That is the operating fleet Alaska Air Group reported for September 30, 2026, counting Alaska, Hawaiian, Horizon Air and the regional jets SkyWest flies for Alaska.

Only 39 of them are widebodies, going by the group’s type-by-type table for June 30, 2026: 24 Airbus A330-200s, five Boeing 787-9s and 10 A330 freighters flown for Amazon. Everything else is a Boeing 737, an Airbus A321neo, a Boeing 717 or an Embraer E175.

How Alaska Airlines passed 400 planes

The jump came from one deal. Alaska Air Group completed its purchase of Hawaiian Holdings on September 18, 2024, and Hawaiian’s Airbus and Boeing jets joined a fleet that had been built around the 737.

On October 29, 2025, the FAA gave Alaska a single operating certificate. Since then both airlines have flown under one call sign, AS, while keeping two brands: the Alaska Native on the tail of the 737s and Hawaiian’s Pualani on its A321s, A330s and 717s.

So “Hawaiian’s fleet” is now a brand more than a separate airline. Every Alaska and Hawaiian flight operates under Alaska’s certificate.

The count keeps climbing. It was 406 on September 30, 2025, 413 at the end of 2025 and 422 on June 30, 2026, before reaching 424 three months later.

Alaska Airlines’ fleet, type by type

The group’s third-quarter results give the 424 total but not the types behind it. The newest breakdown is the June 30, 2026 table in its second-quarter filing, when the fleet stood at 422.

Aircraft	Flown as	Number
Boeing 737-700	Alaska	11
Boeing 737-800	Alaska	59
Boeing 737-900ER	Alaska	79
Boeing 737-8 (MAX 8)	Alaska	20
Boeing 737-9 (MAX 9)	Alaska	80
Boeing 787-9	Alaska	5
Airbus A321neo	Hawaiian	18
Airbus A330-200	Hawaiian	24
Boeing 717-200	Hawaiian	19
Boeing 737-700 and 737-800 freighters	Cargo	5
Airbus A330-300 freighters	Cargo (Amazon)	10
Mainline total		330
Embraer E175	Horizon Air	49
Embraer E175	SkyWest for Alaska	43
Regional total		92
Whole fleet		422

The 737 carries the group. Add the five passenger versions and you get 249 jets, more than half of everything Alaska owns, leases or contracts.

Horizon is now an all-Embraer airline. Its 49 Embraer E175s and the 43 that SkyWest flies make up the whole regional fleet of 92.

It is also a young fleet. At the end of 2025 the average plane in the group was 9.7 years old, and the 737-9s averaged 2.8.

Why so few Alaska jets have two aisles

Alaska grew up as a 737 airline, flying the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii. The twin-aisle jets came later, and they came from Hawaiian.

The 24 Airbus A330-200s still fly in Hawaiian colors. The Boeing 787-9s come from Hawaiian’s order book: at the end of 2024 it still had 10 on firm order, AirlineGeeks reported from the annual filing.

Those 787s are now Alaska’s international flagships. The first one painted in Alaska’s new dark blue and green global livery was shown in Seattle on January 7, 2026.

Size explains why they matter beyond their number. A 787-9 seats 300 and an A330-200 seats 278, while Alaska’s 737-9s and 737-900ERs seat 178 and Hawaiian’s A321neos 189.

Five 787s are enough to start a long-haul network from Seattle, not to run a big one. Alaska now counts nine Seattle international routes announced, among them Tokyo Narita, London Heathrow and Rome, with Athens and Paris joining Osaka and Papeete in spring 2027.

The order that takes Alaska to 550 planes

On January 7, 2026, Alaska announced the largest aircraft order in its history: 105 Boeing 737-10s and five more 787s. It firmed 53 new 737-10s, exercised 52 options and took rights to 35 more.

Alaska said it intends to take those five 787s as the larger 787-10, for delivery in 2031 and 2032. It plans to fly more than 475 planes by 2030 and more than 550 by 2035.

The 737 MAX 10 has only just cleared certification. The FAA certified the 737-10 on October 20, 2026, and Alaska’s own plan, filed in August, has its first 25 arriving in 2027.

That plan shows how the order reshapes the fleet. By the end of 2028 Alaska expects 485 planes, but only 31 passenger widebodies: 20 A330-200s after four leave, seven 787-9s and four 787-10s.

In other words, the widebody share goes down, not up, as the 737-10s arrive. The growth is single-aisle.

Why every Alaska fleet count online is different

Search this question and you will find 413, a round 400 and 424. The 413 is real but old: it is the group’s own count for December 31, 2025, which Alaska repeated in its January order announcement.

The total also depends on what you include. Leave out the 43 SkyWest jets and the 15 freighters, and Alaska, Hawaiian and Horizon crews flew 364 passenger planes on June 30, 2026.

Measured the same way as the big three, Alaska is still far smaller. Delta counts 1,330 planes, United 1,575 and American 1,609, regional jets included.

The closer match is Southwest’s 803 planes, every one a 737. Alaska has about half as many, with more variety and a long-haul arm, which is the gap our Alaska vs Delta comparison keeps coming back to.

What Alaska’s fleet looks like next

The first change on the Hawaiian side is coming between the islands. Hawaiian’s 19 Boeing 717s are due to start retiring in 2028, replaced on Neighbor Island routes by 737-800s.

The widebodies are getting new cabins instead of new company. Alaska’s Aurora lie-flat suites will go on its 787s and select 737-10s, and Hawaiian’s Leihōkū suites on its A330s.

So the airline that now flies to Rome and Tokyo will keep doing it with a few dozen big jets. The other nine in ten planes are the 737s and E175s that built Alaska in the first place.