American Airlines delays delivery of 18 B737MAX8s

After posting a USD 2.4 billion loss for the third quarter of 2020, American Airlines also announced it has decided to defer the delivery of 18 B737-8s.

Eight of the planes that were planned to be delivered in 2021 are now deferred to 2023 and ten that were scheduled for 2022 will now arrive between 2023 and 2024.

Currently, American Airlines has 24 B737-8s in the fleet and has in total ordered 100 of them.

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