{"id":352174,"date":"2026-01-20T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-airbus-build-newer-a320-family-planes-winglets\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:00:18","slug":"why-did-airbus-build-newer-a320-family-planes-with-winglets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=352174","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Airbus Build Newer A320 Family Planes With Winglets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When observing the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"76754\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 757<\/span><\/span> on the ramp, keen-eyed observers might notice a significant difference in the shape and sound of the powerplants under the wings. This leads to a very interesting question: why does the Boeing 757 have two distinct engine types, the Rolls-Royce RB211 and the Pratt &#038; Whitney PW2000? Engine choice is a primary driver of an aircraft&#8217;s performance, fuel efficiency, and maintenance profile. Taking a closer look at this dual-engine strategy helps explain how <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> managed to create an aircraft with such legendary capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airbus built A320neo family jets and retrofitted A320ceos with Sharklets after the technology was developed and the benefits outweighed the costs.<\/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":[426,429,396,397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a320","category-aircraft","category-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352174","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=352174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352218,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352174\/revisions\/352218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}