One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The airline has been taking delivery of these jets quickly, and Deltas A321neo fleet is now approaching 70 aircraft. Thats exciting as airlines increasingly install flat beds on narrow body aircraft, were frequently seeing herringbone seats rather than reverse herringbone seats.

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One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 17, 2024

So if an airline is going to take delivery of new jets in the coming years, its logical that theyd feature an updated product. I should also mention that Air Canada has 30 Airbus A321XLRs on order , which is a new long range, narrow body aircraft.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 4, 2025

Airlines have ordered hundreds of these planes, and many industry executives view the aircraft as being a game changer. In this post, Id like to share my general takeaway from flying on this aircraft, from a passenger experience perspective. This aircraft is based on the A321 family of aircraft, but features more range.

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One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Believe it or not, this was my first flight on a jet with the new United Next interiors. United is currently investing heavily to become more premium, and this includes introducing new cabins (including seat back TVs) throughout the entire narrow body, mainline fleet. Ive gotta say, I found this to be a pleasant way to fly!

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One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 7, 2024

It has now been about seven years since Delta introduced its new business class product, so how many of the carriers long haul jets have this product? I wanted to talk about that a bit in this post, so that passengers can get a sense of which product theyll find on which Delta aircraft. What are Delta One Suites in business class like?

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One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Ive gotta be honest, it feels kind of weird to board a narrow body jet on Cathay Pacific, because Im so used to the airline only flying wide body jets pre-pandemic. While I dont love the shell seats in business class, thats not an issue on a daytime flight, though I would avoid this aircraft on a redeye.

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In 2023, the airline placed an order for up to 72 Boeing 787-9s , including a firm order for 39 jets, and options for a further 33 jets. This will be the carrier’s primary wide body aircraft, and the Dreamliners will be delivered starting in 2025. The first aircraft is expected to be delivered in the second half of 2026.

Airline

One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Im sure American will highlight that it plans to install new business class seats on long haul aircraft , will open a Flagship Lounge in Philadelphia , and is installing high speed Wi-Fi on its regional jets. But in the case of American, its a little trickier.

Airline

One Mile at a Time

MAY 4, 2025

The primary reason I took this specific flight is to fly the A321XLR, the longest range narrow body commercial jet in production, which only commenced operations in recent months. Its cool to note that the jet I flew EC-OIL was the worlds first A321XLR to enter commercial service.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 28, 2025

Its a bit odd to not have first class on most of the wide body fleet, while now having something thats branded as first class on narrow body aircraft, despite there not being a curtain between cabins, or a dedicated lavatory.

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Universal Weather

JANUARY 8, 2025

Heres what you need to know about operating a business jet to Dublin: Airport Options Dublin Airport (EIDW) is the main airport for business aviation travel to the city. Currently, GA parking for light aircraft starts at 2.65 On the commercial side, parking fees for narrow-body aircraft start at 7.70

Clearance

One Mile at a Time

JULY 7, 2025

I had flown Aer Lingus’ Airbus A321LR business class back in 2019, and it has a very similar hard product to what you’ll find on the updated version of the jet (it’s essentially the same seats, but with updated tech). Compared to many wide body jets, the A321XLR has a much tighter lavatory. So, how was the experience?

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 6, 2025

Qatar Airways is reportedly nearing a massive aircraft order, which would take the carriers capacity to the next level Qatar Airways plans to order up to 200 Boeing jets Bloomberg reports that Qatar Airways is nearing a major Boeing wide body aircraft order.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 7, 2024

We’ve known for some time that Riyadh Air intends to acquire narrow body jets. As a reminder, in March 2023, Riyadh Air placed an order for up to 72 Boeing 787s, including a firm order for 39 jets, plus options for an additional 33 jets. Douglas states that the new wide body order will be placed by 2025.

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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. Pan Am later succumbed to increased competition on many of its routes.

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Aerotime

JULY 9, 2024

With one eye firmly fixed on accelerating its ambitious route expansion plans, Turkish Airlines has entered into a lease agreement with Irish-based leasing giant AerCap for ten new Airbus A321neo passenger jets.

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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. 2024, the airline’s order for narrowbody jets should be done “within the next weeks”.

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Airline Geeks

AUGUST 15, 2024

EL AL, the Israeli national flag carrier, has finalized an agreement with Boeing to purchase up to 31 737 MAX jets, replacing existing narrow-body aircraft.

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Simple Flying

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

There is now a third option for narrow-bodied aircraft (or a fourth option counting Embraer's E-jets ). The introduction of the Chinese COMAC regional C909 (formerly ARJ21) and narrowbody C919 airliner (a Boeing 737 and Airbus A321 competitor) is changing the dynamics of the Asian commercial aviation market.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 29, 2024

Similarly, in 2013, Etihad placed an order for 26 Airbus A321neos, but up until now, the airline hasn’t taken delivery of any of these factory fresh jets, as the order has been deferred. But there is a major update when it comes to Etihad’s fleet plans for the A321neo family of aircraft, beyond the ones being acquired secondhand.

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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 Group has ordered a lot of Airbus jets! Saudia currently has 21 Boeing 787s, with an additional 38 on order (split between the 787-9 and 787-10).

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 3, 2024

Qatar Airways is reportedly nearing a massive aircraft order, which would take the carrier’s capacity to the next level… Qatar Airways to order 200 Airbus & Boeing jets Reuters reports that Qatar Airways is nearing a decision on a major wide body aircraft order, which is expected to be split between both Airbus and Boeing.

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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. Hey, we’re going to increase efficiency, and it’ll be the equivalent of adding 16 aircraft to our fleet.”

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 11, 2024

I was looking forward to this flight, as the A321neo is Korean Air’s first narrow body jet to have flat beds, and it’s a fairly new addition to the fleet. So while I could have flown on a wide body jet, I instead decided to give this a try. The flight was pretty good, all things considered.

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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. It has sort of a private jet feeling.

Cabin Crew

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

JULY 24, 2024

New Emirates business class (A350 & 777) While Emirates is known for being a world class airline, the carrier has historically lagged with its Boeing 777 business class , which on most jets is in a 2-3-2 configuration, with angled seats. Expect greatly updated tech on these jets, as well as Wi-Fi.

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One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Another area where Delta really excels is with inflight Wi-Fi, as the airline offers free Wi-Fi to all SkyMiles members on most mainline, narrow body aircraft. The catch is that as of now this isnt available on select aircraft, especially those flying internationally.

Airline

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 9, 2024

Historically, American has frequently flown wide bodies on some frequencies between Miami (MIA) and Los Angeles (LAX). Last week, Simple Flying reported how as of September 4, 2024, American no longer shows any wide body jets flying between the two airports for the fall and winter.

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One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 24, 2024

The 737 has six cockpit windows (which is standard), and the window at the far end on each side “slopes up” at the bottom, so the window doesn’t go as far down as on other jets. Let’s differentiate between the 737 NG (the older version of the jet), and the 737 MAX (the newer and more controversial version of the jet).

Airplanes

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. What aircraft are most pilots wanting to fly? How diverse is the United fleet?

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All Plane

AUGUST 4, 2024

Europe is also seeing some action on the eVTOL front, with Lilium and Groupe ADP getting into a collaboration agreement , with the aim of facilitating the future use of the latter’s airport facilities by Lilium Jet eVTOLs. KLM is getting close to getting its first ever Airbus 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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Professional Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

P&W’s PW1000G-series geared turbofans are having issues with parts fabricated from powdered metal between late 2015 and mid-2021, which were contaminated by impurities that have caused cracking in some high-pressure turbine and compressor discs, affecting Airbus A320neos and A220s, as well as in Embraer E-Jet E2s.

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Universal Weather

JANUARY 17, 2024

Similarly, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport saw a deferred attempt to ban business jets. Here’s what you need to know about operating a business jet to Dublin: Airport Options (Dublin Airport (EIDW)) is the main airport for business aviation travel to the city. Currently, GA parking for light aircraft starts at 2.65

Clearance

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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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. Once complete, this will be the biggest aircraft order in Israel’s history. For example, EL AL is the only airline in the world to install missile defense systems on its aircraft.

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