The Airbus A321 and Boeing 737 are competing narrow-body twinjet aircraft. The 737 was introduced 27 years before the first A321 started operating. That said, the 737 has continued to evolve and improve over the decades and is still in production with plenty of orders for the 737MAX variants still to be delivered. The A321 […]
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The 777-200 was launched in 1989 to fill the gap in Boeing’s product catalog between the 747 and the 767. The first 777-200 delivery took place in 1995 and was followed by an increased weight and range variant – the 777-200ER, which entered service in 1997. ETOPS (180 minutes) approval for the 777 came in
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The airline industry is in a state of recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in 2020 and extending through to 2022, lockdowns and travel restrictions were imposed by many governments, passenger numbers were a fraction of what they were prior to the pandemic, and many aircraft remained in storage in vast aircraft parking ‘lots.’ The
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The A380 is no longer in production and was available in just one variant – the A380-800. Other variants were proposed but never produced, including the A380 Freighter (A380F), the A380-200 or ‘A380 Stretch’, the A380-900 (another stretched variant), the A380neo (stretched, new engines and higher passenger capacity), and the A380plus (higher seat capacity and
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The Boeing 767 and Airbus A300 are similar-looking aircraft; both are twin-engine, twin-aisle widebodies. The A300 first went into service in 1974, and the B767 followed 8 years later in 1982. The A300 and the passenger variants of the B767 are no longer in production and the numbers in commercial airline fleets are dwindling, especially
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If you’re flying short or mid-haul these days, there’s a good chance you’ll be on an A320 family aircraft; one of the world’s most successful commercial aircraft types. The A320 first started flying in airline fleets in 1988, and the stretched A321 followed in 1994. Both variants have been revamped with more efficient new engine
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The A350 and A380 widebodies are very different aircraft physically. The A350 is relatively new on the scene, first entering commercial service in 2015, and remains in full production. The A380, on the other hand, has been around for 15 years and its production run has ended with the last A380 rolling off the production
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Vueling is a Spanish low-cost airline based at Barcelona El Prat Airport, with hubs also at Paris Orly and Rome Fiumicino airports. It is the largest airline in Spain as measured by fleet size. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vueling carried more than 34 million passengers a year (2019). The airline has been part of
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Swiss is consistently rated as a safe airline to fly with. The airline is IATA IOSA certified and its safety regulator, FOCA, is one of the world’s leading civil aviation safety regulators, meaning that Swiss aircraft and crew licensing standards, and airline safety protocols are among the best monitored and regulated in the world. Fatal
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