The most successful narrow-body aircraft models in the market

Airbus A320 and Boeing B737 are the most popular and top-selling aircraft models in the commercial market. Both are narrow-body jet aircraft and are primarily used for passenger carriage. Boeing is an American aircraft manufacturing industry headquartered in Chicago, Illinois U.S. While Airbus is a European-based aircraft manufacturing with headquarters in Leiden, Netherlands.

A320ceoA320NneoB737s
Orders                             4763                   3978                   15,348
Deliveries                                       4752                   1591                   11,154
In Operation                                  4299                   1591                    
Summary of Orders and deliveries (2022)

Boeing B737

The Boeing 737 family is the most flourished and victorious aircraft ancestry on the planet. Being in 50 years of presence, the Boeing 737 has developed from a short minimal twin-stream carrier into a group of efficacious and flexible airliners. The family comprises three ages of the airplane. The earliest was the Boeing 737 classic, which incorporated the 100 and 200 series, then it was Boeing 737 exemplary series including the 300 to 500 series, and now ultimately the Boeing 737NG, which began from the 600 series and is as yet happening with the 900 series. Orders for the original Boeing 737-100 and 737-200 were put in, 1965 and from that point forward, more than 6000 airplanes were delivered.

FlyDubai Boeing 737-800NG

Features of B737

An extensive cabin passageway implies more space for travelers during flying with the cabin width of the Boeing 737 12’4’’ (3.8m). The lodges of Boeing 737 are normally organized in a two-class setup, with five-star travelers four side by side and economy class travelers six side by side with three on one or the other side of the passageway. The sky furbishing contains upgrades that give a lot of noteworthy impression of the room than the standard style. The cabin is cooled with a three-wheel air cycle natural control framework. The lights are utilized which are beaming and differ in splendor to change the cabin from white to delicate dusk tones.

Performance B737

The Boeing 737 is more intimate to old-school pilots since it actually utilizes a story-mounted yoke associated with control links, which straightforwardly run hydraulic-based control surfaces. The lineage of the Boeing 737 family is fueled by two CFM, International CFM56-Turbofan motors, and wing-mounted motor units. New quiet-working fans have been introduced in the ecological control framework and in the hardware cooling frameworks. Boeing’s new variants include a cruising pace of Mach.785 and reach the most extreme reach of 4500 nautical miles. It can have the most elevated height of 41000 feet. Boeing 737 and its variants are the bread and butter planes of the business.

Airbus A320

Airbus A320 is considered to be the best choice for airlines in the single-aisle category from low-cost operators to mainline carriers around the world. The Airbus A320 is operating in the industry in two main variants, A320 CEO and A320 NEO.

Saudi Arabian Airlines A320-200

Features of A320

A320 comes with a wide single aisle cabin, comfortable and wider seats, and a generous overhead compartment for storage. The new features installed in the cabin of the A320 neo are full LED lighting technologies, new slimmer sidewall panels for extra space, completely integrated window shades, etc.

The aircraft follows the same fly-by-wire digital flight controls and cabin management system as compared with its other version or family. This help reduces the pilot training cost and also low operation and maintenance cost. The pilot has a rating of A320 family and is qualified to fly all the members of the airbus 320 families as it shares the fly-by-wire commonality.

Performance A320

The A320 Neo is powered by 2 x 120.6kN CFM International LEAP-1A or Pratt & Whitney PW1100G that offers 15-20% fuel efficiency. The addition of sharklets wingtips decreases the amount of fuel burned by up to 4% over the longer sector. The Neo, compared to its previous generation, comes with additional flight ranges of up to 900 km and can carry 2 tons of extra payload. Overall, this neo upgradation in A320 delivers a 20% fuel-saving facility and decreases the emission of CO2 comparatively with its previous generation aircraft.  The NEO (new engine option) is a great upgrade offered by Airbus as it provides outstanding operational, economic, and environment-friendly solutions.

Written by Guest Writer, Mohammad Adil

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