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Item 2. Properties
Flight Equipment
We operated a mainline fleet of 349 aircraft at the end of 2009, down from a total of 354 mainline aircraft at the end of 2008. During
2009, we removed 11 leased Boeing 757-200 aircraft, six leased Boeing 737-300 aircraft, seven leased Airbus A320 aircraft and six
owned Embraer 190 aircraft from our mainline operating fleet. We sold 10 of our Embraer 190 aircraft to Republic in 2009 and are
currently leasing back four of these aircraft for periods ranging from one to five months. During 2009, we took delivery of 18 Airbus
A321 aircraft, five Airbus A330-200 aircraft and two Airbus A320 aircraft. We are also supported by our regional airline subsidiaries and
affiliates operating as US Airways Express either under capacity purchase or prorate agreements, which operate approximately
236 regional jets and 60 turboprops.
US Airways has definitive purchase agreements with Airbus for the acquisition of 134 aircraft, including 97 single-aisle A320 family
aircraft and 37 widebody aircraft (comprised of 22 A350 XWB aircraft and 15 A330-200 aircraft), of which 30 aircraft have been
delivered through December 31, 2009. Deliveries of the A320 family aircraft commenced during 2008 with the delivery of five A321
aircraft. As described above, in 2009 we took delivery of 18 Airbus A321 aircraft and two Airbus A320 aircraft under our Amended and
Restated Airbus A320 Family Aircraft Purchase Agreement and five Airbus A330-200 aircraft under our Airbus A330 Aircraft Purchase
Agreement.
In November 2009, US Airways amended its purchase agreements with Airbus to defer 54 aircraft originally scheduled for delivery
between 2010 and 2012 to 2013 and beyond. US Airways now plans to take delivery of 28 Airbus aircraft between 2010 and 2012,
consisting of four aircraft in 2010 (two A320 aircraft and two A330 aircraft) and 24 A320 family aircraft in 2011-2012. US Airways has
financing commitments in place for all 28 of these aircraft. In addition, commencement of US Airways' Airbus A350 XWB operations,
with aircraft deliveries originally scheduled to start in 2015, will now be postponed to 2017. The aircraft deferrals will not significantly
alter our capacity as we are currently in the process of extending leases for certain aircraft originally scheduled to be replaced during
2010-2012. We intend to retain these aircraft until the rescheduled new aircraft delivery dates.
As of December 31, 2009, our mainline operating fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
Owned/
Aircraft Type Avg. Seats Mortgaged (1) Leased (2) Total Avg. Age
A330-300 293 4 5 9 9.3
A330-200 258 2 3 5 0.3
A321 183 38 13 51 5.0
A320 150 9 61 70 11.1
A319 124 3 90 93 9.2
B767-200ER 204 — 10 10 20.4
B757-200 188 3 25 28 18.5
B737-400 144 — 40 40 19.8
B737-300 131 — 24 24 22.0
ERJ 190 99 15 4 19 2.1
Total 153 74 275 349 11.6
(1) All owned aircraft are pledged as collateral for various secured financing agreements.
(2) The terms of the leases expire between 2010 and 2024.
As of December 31, 2009, our wholly owned regional airline subsidiaries operated the following regional jet and turboprop aircraft:
Average Seat Average
Aircraft Type Capacity Owned Leased (1) Total Age (years)
CRJ-700 70 7 7 14 5.3
CRJ-200 50 12 23 35 5.8
De Havilland Dash 8-300 50 — 11 11 18.3
De Havilland Dash 8-100 37 33 — 33 20.4
Total 48 52 41 93 12.4
(1) The terms of the leases expire between 2013 and 2022.
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