Aerotime

MAY 3, 2024

Accelerated Command Programme for Boeing 777s Emirates has now extended its Accelerated Command Programme (ACP) to its fleet of Boeing 777s – which so far was reserved for its signature A380 aircraft. This is an opportunity for captains flying narrow-body aircraft to graduate to wide-body on Emirates’ fast track promotion program.

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Aerotime

JULY 3, 2024

The company aims to provide an exclusive experience, recreating the defunct US airline’s classic routes but on an upmarket basis, using the narrow-bodied aircraft fitted with just 50 business class seats.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 29, 2024

That’s exciting, since currently Etihad doesn’t have flat beds on any narrow body aircraft. Much like on JetBlue, I imagine that Etihad will select the Thompson Aero VantageSOLO product in business class, which is a herringbone seat with a door, and is proving popular for premium narrow body aircraft.

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Aerotime

JULY 9, 2024

Adding the new narrow-bodied aircraft to its fleet will allow the Istanbul-based carrier to expand into new markets and increase frequencies in others while it awaits the delivery of the 194 A321neos it has on order direct from Airbus.

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Back in 2023, the airline placed an order for up to 72 Boeing 787-9s , as this will be the carrier’s primary wide body aircraft. Then earlier in 2024, we learned that Riyadh Air had placed a narrow body aircraft order, though the details weren’t initially revealed.

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Aerotime

MAY 22, 2024

Riyadh Air The next major announcement from the airline is expected to be for narrow-bodied aircraft, which is widely expected to follow in the next few weeks. But [Riyadh Air] has ten years’ worth of catching up to do to give Saudi citizens the connectivity they deserve,” Douglas added.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 20, 2024

Saudia Group has just placed a massive narrow body aircraft order , which is described as the largest aircraft order in Saudi Arabian aviation history. Saudia currently has 21 Boeing 787s, with an additional 38 on order (split between the 787-9 and 787-10).

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Aviation Bussiness News

AUGUST 6, 2024

In this regard, Turkish Airlines has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TCI Aircraft Interiors, a certified aviation products provider and subsidiary company of Turkish Technic, and Turksat, a regional leader in satellite technologies.

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World Airline News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Photo: Iberia Iberia on November 14 became the first airline in the world to operate transoceanic routes with the new Airbus A321XLR, a narrow-body aircraft, that is, one with a single aisle.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 18, 2024

Lufthansa will progressively be rolling out this safety video on its wide body aircraft (there’s no safety video on narrow body aircraft, as those planes don’t have screens, so instead have a manual safety demonstration). The new safety video is roughly seven minutes long.

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All Plane

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Air Astana has got Airbus to install extra fuel tanks with 3,121 liters of fuel on some of its A321LR, so that it can now fly nonstop Alamty to London on the narrow body aircraft, instead of having to make a technical stopover at Aktau. Turkish Airlines is going to fly to Santiago de Chile and Delta , to Sicily.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 3, 2024

Qatar Airways’ fleet planning has been in disarray in recent years, due to a combination of Boeing struggling with getting new aircraft certified, plus the dispute with Airbus. In addition to the aircraft already in its fleet, Qatar Airways also has 145 passenger jets on order, though many of these are narrow body aircraft.

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All Plane

APRIL 10, 2024

Our Take Great product for a narrow-body aircraft, with many of the features that you would normally expect to find on long-haul, wide-body aircraft! In addition to the IFE system, this A321neo was also equipped with inflight wifi (economy class passengers must purchase a data plan, though).

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 28, 2024

It’s an intriguing concept, and I’m curious which airlines end up selecting this seat… STELIA Aerospace’s new “basic” business class seat I’ve written before about STELIA Aerospace’s OPERA product , which is essentially a reverse herringbone seat intended specifically for Airbus narrow body aircraft, including the upcoming Airbus A321XLR.

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The legacy carriers fly wide body aircraft, while airlines like Frontier and Spirit also fly some more densely configured narrow body aircraft. This is way faster than the competition, though in fairness, the competition also flies planes that (on average) have more seats.

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Korean Air business class overhead console Airbus A321neo Ultimately these seats don’t compare favorably to what you’ll find on most Korean Air wide body aircraft. There were also some amenities to help get more comfortable, like a pillow, blanket, and slippers.

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One Mile at a Time

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

These might just be the snazziest narrow body aircraft in commercial service (well, perhaps aside from all-business class operators, like La Compagnie and Beond ). ITA primarily uses these aircraft for flights to the Middle East and Africa, and what a treat they are!

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 19, 2024

The A220 is Airbus’ awesome jet that’s a bit smaller than the Airbus A320-family of aircraft. From a passenger experience standpoint , this is probably the most comfortable narrow body aircraft, given the 2-3 layout, the huge windows, and the wide seats. The plane is fuel efficient and long range.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 9, 2024

It’s hard to monetize flat beds domestically This explanation (of course) makes perfect sense I don’t think the above should surprise anyone, but I think the rough numbers used by a network planning executive provide interesting context: On average, American needs to command 4x the fare for business class vs. economy when offering flat beds; that’s (..)

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One Mile at a Time

JULY 18, 2024

I mean, it’s good to fill seats, and it’s something that has been necessary for United, as the airline increasingly flies larger narrow body aircraft. While growing premium revenue is good, I’m not sure increasing basic economy revenue is necessarily something to brag about?

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All Plane

AUGUST 4, 2024

KLM is getting close to getting its first ever Airbus narrow body aircraft. This is likely due to anticipating harsh conditions from the European competition authorities. As a side consequence, Volotea has rescinded its deal with Grupo Abra to grow in Madrid.

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This will be the carrier’s primary wide body aircraft, and the Dreamliners will be delivered starting in 2025. Riyadh Air will initially fly Boeing 787-9s Now in 2024, the airline placed an order for 60 Airbus A321neos , which will be the carrier’s primary narrow body aircraft.

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Airspeed Junkie

APRIL 27, 2022

Greater than 850 Aircraft, and that does not include any regional aircraft that work in the united airlines livery or system. Over half that are narrow body aircraft. Primarily Boeing 757 and Boeing 737 aircraft. United is planning on hiring 5000 more pilots by 2030.

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Aviation Bussiness News

MAY 20, 2024

United Chief Financial Officer Michael D Leskinen said in United’s Q1 earnings call that the company has revised its projections of narrow-body aircraft deliveries in 2024 from an expected 101 earlier this year to 61 – a 40% reduction. United Airlines is one of the major victims of this crisis.

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One Mile at a Time

JULY 24, 2024

New Malaysia Airlines business class New Iberia business class (A321XLR) Iberia is the global launch customer for the Airbus A321XLR, which is an exciting new long range, narrow body aircraft.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

DECEMBER 14, 2023

My last flight experience with this airline was before the merger of Scoot and Tigerair, so at that time Scoot was only operating the wide-body, the Boeing 777-200ER and then followed by the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 7 years later, I would fly with Scoot, this time on the airline's new A321NEO, one of my favourite narrow-body aircraft.

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Aerotime

MAY 18, 2024

A few years ago, while working for one of the major aircraft makers, Beond’s co-founder Max Nilov realized that the arrival of a new generation of longer-range narrow-body aircraft would open up opportunities for the development of new business models. Between them, Taskila and Nilov then started to brainstorm ideas.

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Universal Weather

JANUARY 17, 2024

Currently, GA parking for light aircraft starts at 2.65 On the commercial side, parking fees for narrow-body aircraft start at 7.70 These high rates aim to discourage long-term commercial aircraft parking but also affect GA. Euros per 15 minutes, with the same percentage escalations as the GA area.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 11, 2024

The airline has now made a decision, and plans to acquire around 30 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, through a combination of purchases and leases.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 28, 2024

For the soft and hard products on the narrow-body aircraft (excluding the A321LR), there isn't anything to shout about. However, I like the stylish crew's uniform and the cabin interior of both aircraft I flew on.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Hot air rises, cold air sinks) The 2-2 business class seats is a definite welcome to all narrow-body aircraft especially for a 5-hour flight like mine, the lie-flat bed function is certainly welcoming. That is because a mist of cold air was blowing from the top to allow the passengers to feel cooler while entering the cabin.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

These aircraft are also used on transatlantic flights and that is how versatile the A321NEO is. My rating: 7.5/10 I was surprised how good these Collin Meridian seats are after settling down.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As the Boeing 737-8 is a single aisle narrow-body aircraft. The configuration of these are arranged in 2-2 (First row), 1-1 (Second row) and 2-2 (Third row), making it a total of 10 Business Class seats on this aircraft type.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Gone were the days when Singapore Airlines operated wide-body on popular cities such as Penang and Phuket with the Boeing 777-200 (Non-ER rated) and now the airline is operating the smaller narrow-body aircraft which allows more flexibility and adjustment of the frequency or up-gauge the aircraft on the routes when is needed.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 16, 2024

I booked the following in business class for 90,000 Air Canada Aeroplan points plus $88.24

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One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 24, 2024

United Boeing 787-10 Airbus A220 characteristics (narrow body) The Airbus A220 is one of the most pleasant narrow body aircraft to fly. This is a fairly small, sleek, and modern looking aircraft. I know this might sound silly, but to me, it looks like an Airbus A350 that shrunk.

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Professional Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The aircraft is scheduled to fly in the 2030s. R-R has also begun development of a scaled-down UltraFan demonstrator for narrow-body aircraft. Reportedly, Airbus is considering it for future single-aisle airliners, and both Embraer and Boeing have tentative plans for new models that may use such an engine.

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