 Braniff ordered new Fokker 100 jetliners; however, these aircraft could not be delivered in a timely fashion due to an order backlog from fellow U.S. carriers and 100 operators American Airlines and US Airways.Then fifty (50) Airbus A320 aircraft orders were taken over from Pan Am.In 1989, the first two A320s were introduced in order to increase Braniff's presence in the Florida market.