Originally Posted by
bigjimbo99
I'm researching for a vacation trip for my wife and I to Europe next year. Its probably via Germany to Italy on Lufthansa, (from looking at the ANA tool, many thanks to you folks).
Being a novice flyer, I'm not up to snuff on airplane codes and preferences.
For the transatlantic leg, I'm seeing 333 and 343, which I figure are the Airbus planes, and 744 and 763, the Boeing planes. For the intra-Europe legs, I see 143, 319, 321, AT5, AR7, and AR8. I have no clue what they are, but figure they must be small regional planes.
Do we have a thread or an external link which compares them for size, comfort etc? Do you have any favorites or avoids among them?
Many thanks.
This is a bit off topic but I try to answer this anyway, before this thread gets moved.
The abbreviations used are a mixture of the the general type of plane as well as the specific variant.
For example a 744 refers to a Boeing 747 of the 747-400 variant. A 343 is an Airbus A340 of the A340-300 sort.
A321, A320, A319 etc. are Airbuses of reasonable size, comparable to a Boeing 737.
A 143 is a BAE 146.
A good, not 100% up to date site with lots of airplane types is:
http://www.thetravelinsider.info/airplanetypes.htm