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The Airbus A320 is a low-wing airliner with twin turbofans and a conventional tail. The Airbus A320 family are narrow-body (single-aisle) aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by two wing pylon-mounted turbofan engines. After the oil price rises of the 1970s, Airbus needed to minimise the trip fuel costs of the A320.
The following is a list of airlines operating Airbus A320 family aircraft. [1] [2] Current operators. Airline A318 A319ceo A319neo A320ceo A320neo A321ceo A321neo
On 29 March 2015, Air Canada Flight 624, an Airbus A320-211 registered as C-FTJP, touched down short of the runway while landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in low visibility and heavy snow, colliding with a power pole and an antenna array, cutting power to the airport and causing the landing gear to separate from the aircraft ...
The Airbus A320neo family is an incremental development of the A320 family of narrow-body airliners produced by Airbus.The A320neo family (neo being Greek for "new", as well as an acronym for "new engine option") is based on the enhanced variant of the previous generation A319, A320, and A321, which was then retrospectively renamed the A320ceo family (ceo being an acronym for "current engine ...
Airbus had identified a demand for an aircraft smaller than the Airbus A300, the first twin-jet wide-body. It was manufactured from 1981-1998. Airbus A320, the company's best-selling airliner. Building on its success with the A300, Airbus worked to develop a narrow-body aircraft along with additional wide-body aircraft based on the A300.
List of orders, deliveries and operators of the Airbus A320 family, as of 31 December 2024: Ord — number of aircraft ordered from Airbus; Del — number of aircraft delivered by Airbus; Bl — number of aircraft still to be delivered to the specified customer
In June 2005, IndiGo placed an order for 100 Airbus A320-200 aircraft worth US$6 billion during the Paris Air Show with plans to commence operations in mid-2006. [12] [13] [14] In July 2006, the airline received its first A320. The airline planned to induct 100 aircraft by 2015–2016. [15]
The following table shows total firm orders of A320neo family aircraft by customer and variant as of December 2021. [1] In the engine columns, the boxes filled in with a * signify that the airline has ordered all their A320neo jets with that particular engine.