How Many Planes Does American Airlines Have? The 2026 Fleet, Counted

American Airlines has 1,609 planes. That is the count the airline reported for June 30, 2026, in its second-quarter results: 1,030 mainline jets plus 579 regional jets flying as American Eagle.

That total is bigger than United’s or Delta’s. American does not, though, fly the most mainline jets, and that gap is why you will find several different answers to this question online.

How Many Planes Does American Airlines Have?

1,609, as of June 30, 2026. The count includes every aircraft American owns or leases, plus the regional jets that partner carriers fly for it under contract.

It leaves out four Bombardier CRJ900s that were in temporary storage, and the 373 aircraft American has on firm order. A year earlier, on June 30, 2025, the same count was 1,539.

American’s fleet, type by type

American publishes its fleet by aircraft type once a year, in its annual report. Every quarter it gives only the two totals, mainline and regional, so the most recent type-by-type split is the one for December 31, 2025.

The single biggest type is the Boeing 737-800, with 303 aircraft. That is more than twice as many as all of American’s wide-body jets put together: 47 777-200ERs, 20 777-300ERs and 70 787s make 137.

Almost half the mainline fleet, 484 of 1,013 jets, is the Airbus A320 family. The oldest jets are the 777-200ERs, at an average of 25 years, and the A320s, at 24.7.

Since December, the mainline count has risen by 17, to 1,030. American bought 14 Boeing 737 MAX jets in the first half of 2026, and the three A321XLRs it had parked at year-end no longer appear in its storage footnote.

The regional count rose by 12, to 579. Over the same six months American bought eight new Embraer E175s and four used Bombardier CRJ900s.

Why the numbers differ

Search this question and the top results quote 1,030, “more than 1,000” and a spread of fleet-tracker totals, while American’s own total is 1,609. Most of them are right about something. They are counting different things.

Mainline or the whole operation

1,030 is the mainline fleet only, and it is the number Wikipedia gives. It leaves out the 579 American Eagle jets, which are 36% of everything flying in American’s colors.

Those regional jets matter less than their numbers suggest. By AeroCorner’s math from the annual report’s average seat counts, they were 36% of the aircraft at the end of 2025 but only about 18% of the seats.

They also fly short hops. In the second quarter of 2026, the average regional flight covered 471 miles (758 km), against 1,214 miles (1,954 km) for mainline.

Owned or just painted to match

Not every “American” plane belongs to American. Of the 567 regional jets at the end of 2025, 171 were owned or leased by the contractors that fly them, SkyWest Airlines and Republic Airways.

The other 396 fly with American’s own regional airlines: 179 at Envoy, 146 at PSA and 71 at Piedmont. Envoy flies E170s and E175s, PSA flies CRJ700s and CRJ900s, and Piedmont flies only the ERJ145.

Parked, ordered or retired

American’s own count drops aircraft that are in storage. At the end of 2025 that was three brand-new Airbus A321XLRs and four CRJ900s, and a list built from aircraft registrations would still include them.

Some sites add orders to the fleet, which they are not. Others are years out of date: American retired its Embraer E190s and Boeing 767s in 2020 and brought forward the end of its 757s and A330-300s, so any list that still includes them is stale.

How the fleet got here, and where it is going

Today’s fleet is the product of a 2013 merger with US Airways and a 2020 clear-out that left the narrow-body fleet with just two cockpit types, the A320 and 737 families.

The 2025 deliveries were 23 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, 11 Boeing 787-9s, five A321XLRs and one A321neo. American launched its Flagship Suite business-class seats on the 787-9 and the A321XLR.

The order book stood at 373 aircraft on June 30, 2026: 167 Airbus A320-family jets, 115 Boeing 737s, 19 Boeing 787s and 72 Embraer E175s. No more 787s are due in 2026; the next six are scheduled for 2027.

Expect the count to move every quarter. American reports the new totals with each set of quarterly results, and the next type-by-type split is due with the 2026 annual report.

How American compares with United and Delta

The three big US network airlines all publish their fleets in their annual reports, so December 31, 2025 is the cleanest like-for-like date.

American finished 2025 with 1,580 aircraft, United with 1,490 and Delta with 1,314. On mainline jets alone the order changes: United 1,066, American 1,013, Delta 989.

Fleet size is only one way to rank airlines. Our ranking of the biggest airlines in the US also weighs passengers and revenue, and the largest airlines in the world list shows how far ahead of everyone else these three US carriers sit.