American Airlines (AA) and Airbus have reached an agreement to defer deliveries of 22 A350-900 on order, from spring of 2017 to late 2018. The move is seen as a means to reduce the carrier’s capital expenditures and improve its flexibility in terms of capacity.
The order, inherited from U.S. Airways merger, was originally placed in 2007. American Airlines will now start taking two jetliners in 2018, and five per year between 2019 and 2022. Originally, plans were to take four in 2017, 10 in 2018, six in 2019 and two in 2020.