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Old Nov 26, 2015 | 8:33 pm
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Originally Posted by Madone59
AA is a surprise. I would have put even money on EK and they didn't make the top 10.
But I bet EK is in the top 10 by Airbus seats or ASMs flying.

US was long the largest A320 family operator IIRC (or maybe just A321 operator). Getting AA mixed in with its growing A320 family fleet makes sense that it would be the largest. But very few wide body Airbus planes there, especially compared to Emirates and the A380 fleet it runs.

ETA: I did the query. For departures on Monday, December 7th here are top 10 ASMs on Airbus-operated flights by carrier:

Code:
EK	240803658
AA	212042792
LH	203006514
MU	167263516
AK	166527310
CZ	164064456
TK	137915202
CA	135074253
B6	120836024
SU	120451846
And, just for grins, here are the numbers for Boeing:

Code:
WN	401048193
UA	391503383
AA	366483528
DL	356997654
EK	336609937
BA	219794453
FR	201791520
NH	173589729
AF	152469451
KL	152018893

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