Ive allways wondered why its Taken the American Carriers this long to pick up on the 777-300ER Especially after its fantastic Sucess Abroad!

Too Big, Too big, too big.

The -300 basically carries 90% of the payload of a 747, and AA had none of those, NW (now Delta) had only 16. United had quite a few 747’s at one time, but their fleet has been shrinking for the last 10 years. In general, all of the American Carriers have been building frequency and downsizing capacity for quite some time now, thus all the 767’s in service, 772s and 330s to a lesser extent, and no 380 orders in the states at all.