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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.
IATA codes are published in Appendix A of IATA's annual Standard Schedules Information Manual (SSIM) and are used for airline timetables and computer reservation systems. [2] IATA designators are used to distinguish between aircraft types and variants that have differences from an airline commercial perspective (size, role, interior ...
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 ...
Four-abreast cross-section Airbus A320 (foreground) and Boeing 737-900 (background), both narrow-bodies Narrow-body Airbus A320 in front of a Boeing 777-300ER wide-body. A narrow-body aircraft or single-aisle aircraft is an airliner arranged along a single aisle, permitting up to 6-abreast seating in a cabin less than 4 metres (13 ft) in width.
The Airbus A320 family was the first airliner to feature a full glass cockpit and digital fly-by-wire flight control system. The only analogue instruments were the radio magnetic indicator, brake pressure indicator, standby altimeter and artificial horizon, the latter two being replaced by a digital integrated standby instrument system in later production models.
Airbus A220; Airbus A300; Airbus A310; Airbus A318; Airbus A319; Airbus A320 family; Airbus A320neo family; Airbus A321neo; Airbus A330; Airbus A330neo; Airbus A340; Airbus A350; Runway Overrun Prevention System; Airbus A380; Airbus E-Fan; Airbus E-Fan X; Airbus MAVERIC; Airbus THOR; Airbus Wingman
The A320 engine, the PW1100G, had made its first static engine test run on November 1, 2012, [20] and was first tested on the 747SP on May 15, 2013. [21] The first flight of the Airbus A320neo followed on September 25, 2014. [ 22 ]
Lufthansa operates a mainline fleet of 296 aircraft, consisting of Airbus narrow and wide-body and Boeing wide-body aircraft. [1] [2] The mainline fleet is composed of seven different aircraft families: the Airbus A320 and A320neo families, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Airbus A350, Airbus A380, Boeing 747 and Boeing 787.