Its board will decide soon whether to increase the production rate of its medium-range A320 family of narrow-bodied aircraft that at present is planned to rise to 40 aircraft a month by the first quarter of 2012. ❋ David Pearson (2011)
EADS started the year on a high note, with the disclosure Tuesday that Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian low-cost airline IndiGo worth some $15.6 billion at list price for 180 of its A320 narrow-bodied aircraft, including 150 of a new fuel-efficient version to become available in 2016. ❋ David Pearson (2011)
The catalog prices of the Toulouse, France-based company's jets will now range from $65.2 million for the smallest narrow-bodied A318 to $299.7 million for the wide-bodied A350 XWB that is planned to go into service in 2013. ❋ David Pearson (2011)
In a tender posted on its website, Air India said it requires the narrow-bodied Airbus A320 and Boeing 737, as well as Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s, both used for longer haul flights. ❋ Anirban Chowdhury (2011)
Mr. Soni said the new hangar can paint 35 wide-bodied or 50 narrow-bodied aircraft each year. ❋ Santanu Choudhury (2010)
Development of an all-new narrow-bodied plane with technology that isn ' t available today is unlikely until well into the next decade, he said. ❋ David Pearson (2010)
To take on rivals Jet Airways (India) Ltd. and, Kingfisher Airlines Ltd., as well as low-fare carriers such as SpiceJet Ltd. in the domestic market, Air India is also looking to rejig its fleet, adding more narrow-bodied planes used for short-haul flights, while restricting the fleet of wide-bodied aircraft, the executive said. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Also Monday, recently revived aviation-leasing company Air Lease Corp. said it has ordered 51 Airbus A320 family narrow-bodied aircraft, including 31 A320s and 20 A321-20s. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Alain Flourens, former head of Airbus's narrow-bodied A320 family program, succeeds Mr. Heinen. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Dubai-based low-cost airline FlyDubai, which will begin operations in mid-2009 with the help of Emirates Airline, said it is acquiring 54 Boeing 737-800 narrow-bodied aircraft, including four under a lease arrangement, in deals valued at some $4 billion. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Boeing could invade the narrow-bodied market in five years with new products and challenge Airbus's primacy there as well. ❋ Martin T. Sosnoff (2006)
However, it will also need to fund the A350 XWB and, before long, pay for a new narrow-bodied airliner to replace the highly successful A320. ❋ Oxford Analytica (2006)
The 50-year-old Heinen, who became Vice President of the Airbus Delivery Centre at the beginning of 2000, comes from a program that's been on automatic since the early 90s -- the narrow-bodied planes have sold in their thousands -- so the A318/A319/A320/A321 programs are as mature as any can be at Airbus, which is the exact opposite of the A380 situation. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Alucius eased Wildebeast out along the shoulder and headed back toward Fifth Company, noting the narrow-bodied wagons and packhorses stretched out for half a vingt behind Feran's last troopers. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2003)
It's what they call a "narrow-bodied" airplane, not a big jumbo jet, but it can carry as many as 155 passengers, we're told, although, as I mentioned, apparently 65 passengers on board and five crew members. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Both of these aircraft, by the way, are what are call narrow-bodied aircraft, not the jumbo jets like the 747s or larger DC-10s. ❋ Unknown (2000)
And watched the narrow-bodied, lithe steel Bugatti surge across the finish-line a bare nose ahead of the Ford, engine afire and trailing a stream of flame and smoke that looked for all the world like a victory banner. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1998)
Within three weeks she was aboard a narrow-bodied Aeroflot Ilyushin jet, winging over the crystal blue Baltic Sea on the way to Moscow. ❋ Lisa, Leonore (1982)
Out of the water, like a trout, ten yards or so astern of the canoe, came a yellow-hued, long, narrow-bodied fish, and presently, hand over hand, it was dragged up to the side and lifted in by sheer might. ❋ William Senior (N/A)
