American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) expects to receive its first A321-200NY(XLR) later in 2025 and increase its long-haul international capable fleet from approximately 125 aircraft to nearly 200 aircraft by 2029, the company’s vice president, of investor relations & corporate development, Scott Long, said during the 2024’s fourth quarter investors call.

The company, which has an order for fifty A321neo(XLR)s, expects to receive most of them between 2025 and 2029, looking to operate about forty of the type by the end of the decade, chief financial officer Devon May confirmed.

So far, Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) has unveiled only one future American Airlines A321neo(XLR): soon-to-be N470AN (msn 11520). However, there is no set date for the delivery of the aircraft. American told ch-aviation that it will update its fleet delivery schedule in February.

Regarding a new widebody order, Robert Isom, the company’s president and chief executive officer, said they are in contact with Airbus and Boeing, but there is no set plan at this moment. Instead, American Airlines expects the B777-300ERs (of which it has twenty, with an average age of 11 years) to keep going “for some time,” with them being retrofitted with the new suites.

When discussing the B777-200ER type, he said: "we’ve got a decision to make about [the] B777-200ERs (of which it has forty-seven, with an average age of 24.2 years) at some point in time, whether we reconfigure [them] or do something else."

The ch-aviation fleets module shows that American Airlines’ widebody fleet is composed of forty-seven B777-200ERs, twenty B777-300ERs, thirty-seven B787-8s, and twenty-two B787-9s. It also has orders for fifty A321neo(XLR)s and twenty-five B787-9s (with five more to be leased from Boeing Capital).

The carrier closed the year with total operating revenue of USD54.2 billion and net profit of USD846 million, a 2.7% and 2.9% increase over 2023, respectively. Additionally, the company achieved a USD15 billion debt reduction from peak levels in mid-2021, a full year ahead of schedule.

“We ended the year with total debt of USD38.6 billion and net debt of USD31.6 billion, our lowest net debt since 2015,” said May. The next goal for the company is to reduce total debt to less than USD35 billion by the end of 2027, he added.