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I toured one of Emirates' new Airbus A350 jets in Edinburgh. The sleek new aircraft features 4K screens and electronic window blinds in every class. The A350's main competitor, the Boeing 777X ...
Emirates is by far the largest operator of the double-decker plane, with a fleet of 118. Singapore Airlines is next with just 13. Airbus ended production of the A380 in 2021 — 18 years after it ...
United will replace its aging Boeing 757s with the Airbus A321XLR starting in December 2025. The narrowbody can fly up to 5,400 miles nonstop, making it ideal for lower-demand long-haul routes.
Some airlines have bought Airbus' new extra-long-haul A321XLR to replace their aging Boeing 757s. Boeing chose not to build a replacement for its popular narrowbody in the early 2000s.
The new aircraft, which would likely have been named the Boeing 797, would be available in two versions: a 225-seater with 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) range and a 275-seater with a range of 4,500 nmi (8,300 km). Third-party forecasts for this market varied from 2,000 to 4,000 aircraft, though Boeing expected the market demand to lie at the upper end ...
The narrow-body fleet is composed of Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft which will be replaced by Airbus A320neo family aircraft in 2024. Airbus A330, Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft are used on medium and long-haul flights. In September 2023, Air France-KLM announced an order for 50 Airbus A350s.
Airbus is about to kick-start a new era of long-haul travel. The European manufacturer is set to launch its "extra long-range" Airbus A321XLR in November, with the plane's first flights on Spanish ...
Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) is the name given to a British project to procure a fleet of Airbus A330 MRTT (Multi-Role Tanker Transport) aerial refuelling (AR) and air transport (AT) aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF), to replace their then existing older models such as the Vickers VC10s and Lockheed TriStars.