The Airbus A321 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short to medium range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin engine jet airliners; it carries 185 to 236 passengers. It has a stretched fuselage which was the first derivative of the baseline A320 and entered service in 1994, about six years after the original A320. The aircraft shares a common type rating with all other Airbus A320-family variants, allowing A320-family pilots to fly the aircraft without the need for further training.
Airbus A321
The A321 entered service in January 1994 with Lufthansa, seen here is an A321-100.
An Airbus A321 on final assembly line 3 in the Airbus Hamburg-Finkenwerder plant
The A321 has double-slotted flaps
The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus.
The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France.
The first member of the family was followed by the longer A321, the shorter A319, and the even shorter A318 .
Final assembly takes place in Toulouse in France; Hamburg in Germany; Tianjin in China since 2009; and Mobile, Alabama in the United States since April 2016.
Airbus A320 family
The Joint European Transport JET2-100 concept
The A320 first prototype (retrofitted with IAE V2500-A1 engines) at the 1988 Farnborough Airshow
The first A320 was delivered to Air France on 28 March 1988; the early A320-100s had no wingtip fences.
