American Airlines to retain E190s through YE20

American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) will continue to operate its smallest mainline aircraft, the E190, “through 2020” to cope with the ongoing absence of its grounded B737-8s, the airline confirmed to The Points Guy aviation blog. The airline will operate as many as 17 out of its current fleet of 20 of the Embraer regional jets until the end of the year. Earlier, American Airlines planned to retire all of them at the end of the Summer 2020 season with President Robert Isom reiterating this timeline as recently as late January. According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, the twenty E190s are 12.3-year-old on average and are all owned by American Airlines. The carrier deploys the aircraft predominantly on short-haul services in the eastern United States, basing them out of New York La Guardia, Philadelphia Int’l, Washington National, and Raleigh/Durham. The airline has twenty-four grounded B737 MAX 8s.