Airbus A320: Inside The Most Successful Aircraft Family Ever Built

The Airbus A320 has been in service for almost four decades since the original A320-100 debuted in early 1988. Officially launched in 1984, Airbus developed the A320-family to rival Boeing’s successful 737 program and the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, which essentially limited airlines at the time to US-made narrowbody jets. Now consisting of four main products – the A318, A319, A320 and A321 – the A320-family has since surpassed the Boeing 737 as the most-sold aircraft in history.