Editing America West Airlines (section)

==Fleet==
===Final fleet===
[[File:Americawestboeing757-200.jpg|thumb|America West Airlines [[Boeing 757#757-200|757-200]] in 2006]]
As of September 27, 2005, at the time of the merger, America West Airlines' fleet consisted of the following aircraft:{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; text-align:center"
|+ America West Airlines fleet
|-
!rowspan=2|Aircraft
!rowspan=2|In<br />service
!colspan=3|Passengers
!rowspan=2|Notes
|-
!<abbr title=Business>C</abbr>
!<abbr title=Economy>Y</abbr>
!Total
|-
|[[Airbus A319-100]]
|34
|12
|112
|124
|rowspan=2|All were transferred to [[US Airways]] and later [[American Airlines]].
|-
|[[Airbus A320-200]]
|57
|12
|138
|140
|-
|[[Boeing 737-300]]
|36
|8
|126
|134
|All were transferred to [[US Airways]] and later retired in 2012.
|-
|[[Boeing 757-200]]
|13
|14
|176
|190
|All were transferred to [[US Airways]] and later retired by [[American Airlines]] in 2020.
|-
!Total
!140
!colspan=4|
|-
|}

===Retired fleet===
America West Airlines previously operated the following aircraft:{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; text-align:center"
|+ America West Airlines retired fleet
|-
! Aircraft
! Total
! Introduced
! Retired
! Notes
|-
| [[Boeing 737-100]]
| 5
| 1984
| 1999
|
|-
| [[Boeing 737-200]]
| 62
| 1983
| 2005
|
|-
| [[Boeing 747-200B]]
| 4
| 1989
| 1994
|
|-
| [[De Havilland Canada Dash 8|de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100]]
| 12
| 1987
| 1993
|Transferred to [[Mesa Airlines]].
|}

===America West Express aircraft===
{{main|America West Express#Fleet}}
[[America West Express]] services primarily operated by [[Mesa Airlines]] via a [[code sharing]] agreement with America West utilized the following regional jet and turboprop aircraft.

===Cancelled and planned orders===
In 1991, America West had plans for purchasing 4 [[Boeing 747-400]] aircraft to replace the aging [[747-200]]s in Honolulu service, but an order of 10 further [[Boeing 757-200]]s was also mentioned.<ref>{{Cite web|title=America West Reconsidering $1.5 Billion in Boeing Orders|url=https://apnews.com/article/c8246193d52ec08514f576850ac5cc53|access-date=May 22, 2021|website=AP NEWS}}</ref> Furthermore, it was in the plans to purchase 15 [[Airbus A318]]s in the late 1990s aside with their new orders of A320s at the time but this never came to fruition.<ref>{{Cite web|title=America West to Sign For Up to 77 Airbus Aircraft Airline Joins Growing List of Customers for A318|url=https://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/912/-america-west-to-sign-for-up-to-77-airbus-aircraft-airline-joins-growing-list-of-customers-for-a318.html|access-date=June 24, 2021|website=www.defense-aerospace.com|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205138/https://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/912/-america-west-to-sign-for-up-to-77-airbus-aircraft-airline-joins-growing-list-of-customers-for-a318.html }}</ref> America West had also planned on announcing an order of 60 aircraft on September 12, 2001, but this was quickly retracted after the [[September 11 attacks|September 11th attacks]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of America West |url=http://awa-history.org/about_awa/history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901154659/http://awa-history.org/about_awa/history/ |archive-date=September 1, 2018 }}</ref>