{"id":348951,"date":"2026-01-14T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-fleet-grows-pair-boeing-737-max-8s\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:50:34","slug":"1st-deliveries-of-2026-american-airlines-fleet-grows-with-a-pair-of-boeing-737-max-8s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=348951","title":{"rendered":"1st Deliveries Of 2026: American Airlines&#8217; Fleet Grows With A Pair Of Boeing 737 MAX 8s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To begin 2026, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> has taken delivery of a pair of new <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739420\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/737-max-8\/\"  >Boeing 737 MAX 8<\/a><\/span> aircraft. These join the fleet, bringing the total to 280 of the aircraft type, making it one of the world&#8217;s largest operators. The Dallas-based airline will now await its final 14 to bring the total number in operation for the airline to 384 (as per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planespotters.net\/airline\/American-Airlines\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Planespotters<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two brand-new Boeing 737 MAX 8s join American Airlines&#8217; fleet.<\/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":[396,636,398,938,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-max-8","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348951","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=348951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349255,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348951\/revisions\/349255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}