Timbuff10
Well-Known Member
Frontier Airlines is the first airline in the WORLD to fly the A-318. It made its first flight last week and yesterday we got the second A-318 that is currently flying. Click on the links to check out the two newest planes. It was pretty cool to be able to take these shots of a brand new airplane and then go check it out for myself!
N801FR
N802FR
The quick scoop on these guys: Take an A319, same exact range, same wings, fuselage width, make it a few feet shorter so it carries 114 pax instead of 132. Then make the vertical stabilizer about a foot taller so the aircraft is more stable and you have a new aircraft pretty much (im sure it was harder than that for Airbus). It works well in our system because now we can send an A318 from DEN to LGA that is fully loaded instead of an A319 that has 20 empty seats. This saves alot of money and creates profit. Basically it is replacing 737-200s that dont quite have the range to operate long, low density flights.
Oh yeah, Frontier also announced that it would be ordering another 20-40 airplanes from the A320 family between 2004-2008. I can only hope I get to fly them!
Tim
N801FR
N802FR
The quick scoop on these guys: Take an A319, same exact range, same wings, fuselage width, make it a few feet shorter so it carries 114 pax instead of 132. Then make the vertical stabilizer about a foot taller so the aircraft is more stable and you have a new aircraft pretty much (im sure it was harder than that for Airbus). It works well in our system because now we can send an A318 from DEN to LGA that is fully loaded instead of an A319 that has 20 empty seats. This saves alot of money and creates profit. Basically it is replacing 737-200s that dont quite have the range to operate long, low density flights.
Oh yeah, Frontier also announced that it would be ordering another 20-40 airplanes from the A320 family between 2004-2008. I can only hope I get to fly them!
Tim