Airbus A320-Family Deliveries Will Soon Surpass Boeing’s 737

Airbus A321XLR flying above clouds

The A321neo has driven the success of the A320neo family.

Credit: Sylvain Ramadier/Airbus
The Airbus A320 is about to take over from the Boeing 737 as the most successful commercial aircraft program as measured in deliveries. Airbus is hitting that milestone 37 years after the aircraft started flying revenue services with Air France in 1988. First delivery of an A320 also came 21 years...
Jens Flottau

Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Jens is executive editor and leads Aviation Week Network’s global team of journalists covering commercial aviation.

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