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Old Feb 11, 2025 | 1:48 pm
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Originally Posted by MrAndy1369
What was AA's official reason for discontinuing the A333's back then? Retirement? Makes no sense, as there were/are older 777's still in rotation.
330-300 was a fleet of 9 vs a fleet of 47 777-200s and 20 777-300s. It wasn't so much age as it was getting to a simplified fleet. Combine that with the 787's on property and more on order (at the time, and more since then), they decided to put their eggs in the Boeing basket. Without COVID, it would have probably not been much longer before the 332's were put out to pasture for the same reason.
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