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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 accidents and incidents involving the Airbus A320 family and A320neo family of jet airliners. As of March 2024, 180 aviation accidents and incidents have occurred, [1] including 38 hull-loss accidents, [2] resulting in a total of 1490 fatalities.
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 ...
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
[1] [2] [3] The fleet consists of Airbus and Boeing narrow-body aircraft, and all Boeing wide-body aircraft. American exclusively ordered Boeing aircraft throughout the 2000s until July 20, 2011, when American announced the largest combined aircraft order in history for 260 Airbus A320 family and 200 Boeing 737 aircraft. [4]
Meanwhile, Airbus is planning to increase its A320-family production capacity in China. Faury said the planemaker hopes the second final assembly line at its Tianjin plant will come online this year.
The Airbus A321 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short to medium range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin engine jet airliners; [b] it carries 185 to 236 passengers. It has a stretched fuselage which was the first derivative of the baseline A320 and entered service in 1994, about six years after the original A320.
Airbus in 2006 achieved its second best year ever in its entire 35-year history in terms of the number of orders it received, 824, second only to the previous year. [143] Airbus plans to increase production of A320 airliners to reach 40 per month by 2012, at a time when Boeing is increasing monthly 737 production from 31.5 to 35 per month. [144]