Origins
When Airbus designed the A300 during the late 1960s and early 1970s, it envisaged a broad family of airliners with which to compete against Boeing and Douglas (later McDonnell Douglas), … See more

The Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) issued the type certificate for the A320 on 26 February 1988. After entering the market on 18 April 1988 with Air France, Airbus then … See more

As of November 2024 , there are 10,862 A320 family aircraft in commercial service with over 350 operators. The five largest operators are … See more

The Airbus A320 family are narrow-body (single-aisle) aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by two wing pylon-mounted See more

The baseline A320 has given rise to a family of aircraft which share a common design but with passenger capacity ranges from 100, on the A318, to 220, on the A321. They compete with the 737, 757, and 717. Because the four A320 variants share the same … See more

Civilian variants
Passenger-to-freighter (P2F)
A programme to convert A320 and A321 aircraft into freighters was set up by Airbus Freighter Conversion GmbH. Airframes were to be converted by Elbe Flugzeugwerke See more

As of June 2024 , across the entire A320 family, 180 major aviation accidents and incidents have occurred, including 38 hull loss accidents (the latest being LATAM Perú Flight 2213 on 18 November 2022), resulting in a total of 1490 fatalities. The A320 family has … See more