{"id":417889,"date":"2026-04-30T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-america250-brazilian-jet\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:16:40","slug":"american-airlines-america250-jet-is-brazilian-built-and-theres-a-good-reason-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=417889","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines&#8217; America250 Jet Is Brazilian-Built \u2013 And There&#8217;s a Good Reason Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 unveiled its special &#8216;America250&#8217; commemorative aircraft, but its choice of plane has raised eyebrows across the aviation world. The carrier has chosen a Brazilian-built regional jet to display its patriotic <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254905\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/livery\/\"  >livery<\/a><\/span>, a decision that may seem confusing coming from an airline with over 500 US-made <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> planes in its fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The choice of an Embraer E175 raises questions, but the airline has a compelling reason for this selection.<\/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":[396,636,1981,1391,3079,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-embraer-e175","category-livery","category-special-livery","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417889","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=417889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417890,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417889\/revisions\/417890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}