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Riyadh Air: New Saudi Arabian Airline, Launching 2025

One Mile at a Time

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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Review: Cathay Pacific Business Class Airbus A321neo (HKG-ICN)

One Mile at a Time

I was looking forward to this flight, as it was my first time flying a Cathay Pacific narrow body aircraft. The A321neo is a fairly recent addition to Cathay Pacifics fleet, though over time itll become an increasingly popular aircraft for the airline. What a beauty were lucky to occasionally see these in Miami!

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Dublin, Ireland: 2025 Business Aviation Destination Guide

Universal Weather

The airport is business aviation-friendly, providing ample aircraft parking and full services/credit. The airport infrastructure, including the tarmac, taxiways, and runways, is well-maintained. Currently, GA parking for light aircraft starts at 2.65 On the commercial side, parking fees for narrow-body aircraft start at 7.70

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City Insider: What United’s woes tell us about the prospects for the aviation sector

Aviation Bussiness News

The quality crisis at Boeing came to light earlier this year after several safety related recent incidents including a missing external panel upon landing, a lost wheel upon take off, a runway slide, and a hydraulic fluid leak upon take off. The underlying issues have yet to be resolved and likely will not be resolved for some time.

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Flying The Boeing 737 MAX 8 With Singapore Airlines (Part 2: PEN-SIN)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

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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Scooting Off To Penang On The Airline's A321NEO

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

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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Flying the Boeing 737 MAX 8 with Singapore Airlines (Part 1: SIN-PEN)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Once that was done, we spent about 1/4 of our flight time taxing to runway 20L. 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.