The new winglets named ‘sharklets’, produced by Korean Air Aerospace, are being added to A320 family from 2012. These will reduce fuel usage by approximately 3%. These will also increase the payload to 500kg and increase the range of the aircraft by 100nm at the actual payload. This also...
With A320 Family aircraft assembly in Alabama scheduled to begin in 2015, the facility’s first delivery is planned for 2016 to JetBlue – the U.S.-based carrier which operates a fleet of more than 100 Airbus single-aisle jetliners.
The Airbus A320 Final Assembly Line China (FALC) achieved a production milestone in August with completion of the 100th single-aisle aircraft built at the Tianjin facility. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao presided over a celebration of this accomplishment, which ...