{"id":267655,"date":"2025-08-16T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-a320-most-successful-aircraft-family\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:00:13","slug":"airbus-a320-inside-the-most-successful-aircraft-family-ever-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=267655","title":{"rendered":"Airbus A320: Inside The Most Successful Aircraft Family Ever Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Airbus A320 has been in service for almost four decades since the original A320-100 debuted in early 1988. Officially launched in 1984, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> developed the A320-family to rival Boeing&#8217;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 &#8211; the A318, A319, A320 and A321 &#8211; the A320-family has since surpassed the Boeing 737 as the most-sold aircraft in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A320 family is closing in on 20,000 total orders in just over four decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,429,396,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a320","category-aircraft","category-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267656,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267655\/revisions\/267656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}