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Air Arabia établit un record du monde de 30 000 heures de vol avec un A320
La low cost dubaïote Air Arabia vient d’être récompensée par Airbus pour avoir établi un record du monde avec l’un de ses appareils : un A320 qui a atteint les 30 000 heures de vol.Le record de cet appareil a été établi en six années d’exploitation. « Airbus est fier du succès d’Air Arabia. Le choix de l’A320, l’avion le plus efficace et le plus rentable avec une cabine de qualité supérieure pour le confort des passagers », s’est félicité Fouad Attar, vice-président-senior commercial d’Airbus au Moyen-Orient.
Air Arabia, le premier et le plus grand transporteur à bas prix du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord. dispose de vingt-trois appareils A 320 d’Airbus qui suivent soixante-cinq itinéraires à travers le moyen-Orient, le continent africain, le sous-continent indien, l’Asie centrale et l’Europe.
Quant à l’A320, il poursuit sa success story alors même que ses dirigeants s’interrogent sur une opportunité d’en lancer un complètement nouveau afin d’éloigner la concurrence menaçante des Embraer et Bombardier, ou simplement d’y intégrer un nouveau moteur moins gourmand en kérosène.
La famille A320 (A318, A319, A320 et A321) compte à son actif plus de 50 millions de décollages et d’atterrissages depuis la mise en service en 1988 de son tout premier appareil, l’A320. Depuis, les appareils de la famille A320 ont transporté plus de cinq milliards de passagers. Un de ces monocouloirs décolle toutes les six minutes dans le monde.
The confirmation of the availability of sharklets for the A318 positions the aircraft against Bombardier's 110-seat CS100 aircraft, as Airbus stresses existing fleet commonality to blunt the rise of the Canadian airframer's narrowbody, which is set to enter service in 2013.
The A318 accounts for the smallest share of the A320 family fleet with just 72 in service today, although the aircraft has found itself in a niche position for some carriers.
British Airways operates a pair of 32-seat all-business class A318s from London City to John F Kennedy International in New York, with a westbound fuel stop in Shannon, Ireland for fuel and immigration pre-clearance. The return leg from New York is flown directly.
While it is not yet clear that the additional fuel stop could be eliminated with the 2.4m (8ft)-tall sharklets, which Airbus claims will improve climb performance and reduce fuel burn by 3.5% over the longest segments, the airframer says a "proper study would need to be done for each particular mission", referring to the transatlantic service offered by British Airways.
Airbus adds that while the great circle distance between London and New York is 5,573km, within today's A318 range, the high obstacle constrained nature of London City requires a "lighter than needed" payload to match the correct take-off profile.
aeroduO5 a écrit:Pour la question sur les 2 re-designs de l'aile.
Les sharklets devrait être rétofitables. A partir de quel MSN? C'est la gande question. Pour moi ce sera entre 3000 et 4000. Mais ça pourrait être appliqué à des avions plus anciens.
Pour le NEO c'est un programme plus ambitieux.
D'ailleurs la décision serait imminente
http://www.aerocontact.com/actualite_aeronautique_spatiale/ac-la-decision-est-proche-pour-l-airbus-a320-neo~10765.html
La cliente de lancement serait Qatar avec des PW pour avoir une communité avec le C Series.
Comme quoi il y a de la place pour tout le monde
Beochien a écrit:Pour MacIntosh !
Reste le confort, par ce que se faire un Londre New York en Embraer ... à condition d'y arriver en plus, ça ne doit pas être terrible non plus !
Pour le NEO c'est un programme plus ambitieux.aeroduO5 a écrit:Pour la question sur les 2 re-designs de l'aile.
Les sharklets devraient être rétofitables. A partir de quel MSN? C'est la grande question. Pour moi ce sera entre 3000 et 4000. Mais ça pourrait être appliqué à des avions plus anciens.
While the 'retard, retard' call-out normally stops if reverse-thrust is engaged on one of the two throttles, Airbus says the 'F5' change ensures that the warning will continue as long as one engine remains above idle thrust
Airbus today unveils its innovative Space-Flex lavatory and galley concept which could enable some A320-family operators to fit an extra three seats on board their aircraft.
The new design replaces the A320's full-width rear galley with a smaller galley together with two lavatories that were previously located forward of the twinjet's rear passenger doors. The space vacated by moving the lavatories rearwards is taken up by a second small galley area on the right-hand side and an extra row of three seats on the left-hand side, boosting revenue potential for airlines.
"It's something we have been studying for all members of the A320 family," says Airbus head of interiors marketing Bob Lange (pictured below). "We are using space in the aircraft that was previously unused."
An added benefit is that because the relocated lavatories are next to each other, they can be easily converted into a single, larger enclosure to provide access for wheelchair users - a facility that up until now has only been available on widebodied aircraft.
Airbus has worked on the concept with a handful of airlines but aims to use this week's show to gather feedback on its Space-Flex mock-up from a wider selection of carriers. The manufacturer expects to decide in the second half of this year whether to launch Space-Flex commercially, for first deliveries from around 2014, says Lange. The concept would be offered for retrofit as well as to equip new aircraft as it does not require any any structural modifications.
Lange says he does not anticipate the splitting of the rear galley into two sections to adversely impact onboard service provision. "The testing we have done so far with airlines indicates that it's certainly not a problem," he says.
Space-Flex will mainly benefit scheduled carriers operating with two-class cabin configurations as the approximately 30% of the A320 fleet operated by low-cost carriers already has the maximum number of seats allowed, and therefore cannot accommodate the extra three seats.
"We would offer this as an option - but most carriers would take it up," says Lange. He adds that the tentative 2014 in-service date for Space-Flex could be brought forward "if we see very strong market interest
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par jullienaline Mer 22 Sep 2010 - 12:03