L’Airbus A320 sorvola il Boeing 737 come l’aereo di linea più consegnato della storia
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-a320-flies-past-boeing-737-most-delivered-jetliner-history-2025-10-07/
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L’Airbus A320 sorvola il Boeing 737 come l’aereo di linea più consegnato della storia
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/airbus-a320-flies-past-boeing-737-most-delivered-jetliner-history-2025-10-07/
di Massimo25ore
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PRAGUE Oct 7 (Reuters) – Europe’s Airbus broke a major commercial barrier on Tuesday when its A320 family of planes overtook the Boeing 737 to become the most-delivered jetliner in history.
Boeing’s decades-old record fell with the handover of an A320neo model overnight to Saudi carrier Flynas, bringing total deliveries to 12,260 since the A320 series entered service in 1988, according to benchmark data from UK-based aviation analytics firm Cirium.
Airbus and Boeing did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the data, tracked by leading aircraft supply analyst Rob Morris.
Demand for the industry’s workhorse A320 and 737 jets has surged in recent years, as economic growth led by Asia brought tens of millions of new middle-class travellers into the skies.
Together, Boeing and Airbus have delivered more than 25,000 of these jets, originally designed to serve major hubs but later widely adopted by low-cost carriers, which Airbus courted after Boeing cut output during a downturn in demand post-9/11.
Already the world’s largest planemaker by annual deliveries, Airbus now claims the top spot for cumulative narrow-body deliveries, capping a 40-year transatlantic battle for market share after early disagreements over strategy and the share of jobs among partner nations, France, Germany, Spain and Britain.
DECADES OF TRANSATLANTIC RIVALRY
Launched in 1984, the A320 emerged at a time when Airbus’s future was far from assured, following the rocky introduction of two wide-body jets. The aircraft first flew in 1987 and entered service the following year.
Engineers in Toulouse, France, took an ambitious step by introducing fly-by-wire computer controls to a mainstream airliner – a pioneering move that met resistance from unions and some carriers but ultimately became an industry standard.
The brainchild of Airbus co-founder Roger Beteille, its development was shaped by arguments over whether to prioritise U.S. airline demands for a jet in the new 150-seat market, supported by the French, or continue focusing on wide-bodies, backed by Lufthansa.
It’s a proud moment for Europe.
Both Boeing and Airbus receive massive subsidies but our product is better!
[Whistle Boeing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfA2p6Em7bI) by Jesse Welles
A fun folk song about the suspicious deaths of Boeing whistleblowers.
This is all great, and congratulations to everyone connected with Airbus.
But the fly in the ointment is in this barrel: the Chinese have made their own analogue of the A320 (they call it the C919). So far, its sales growth has been hampered by the absence of its own (Chinese) engines (the United States is stopping now supplies), but this will not last long, since the Russians have PD-14(and everyone knows Russia’s dependence on China)
Won’t history repeat itself like with Chinese cars, which no one considered competitors 10 years ago, but now they are global competitors of European and American companies?
Good.
America needs to learn the lesson of what happens when you give so much control over to private equity.