{"id":208032,"date":"2025-04-30T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-delta-united-major-us-carrier-oldest-fleet\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:00:16","slug":"american-vs-delta-vs-united-which-major-us-carrier-has-the-oldest-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=208032","title":{"rendered":"American Vs Delta Vs United: Which Major US Carrier Has The Oldest Fleet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By some measures, including fleet size, American Airlines,        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span>, and        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> are the three largest airlines in the world. When it comes to mainline fleet size, all are similar, with around 1,000 aircraft in service. They also operate almost all the long-haul international flights served by US carriers, although JetBlue does operate some transatlantic flights with Airbus A321s, and Hawaiian operates some international flights in the Pacific region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American, Delta, and United&#8217;s average fleet ages are similar, and all of these carriers have a mix of aging and modern aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,636,13240,565,809,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-commercial-aviation","category-delta-air-lines","category-fleet-analysis","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208033,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208032\/revisions\/208033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}