Turkish Airlines- the biggest Turkish airline, which is part of the Star Alliance aviation association. The carrier has been repeatedly recognized the best airline Europe, from 2012 to 2015 The company was in the top ten in the world.

The main direction of transportation - international flights to Europe, America, Asia and Africa. The company's air fleet consists of Airbus aircraft and Boeing. One of the common aircraft is the Airbus A321. Turkish Airlines has 56 such airliners.

Airbus A321 cabin layout of Turkish Airlines

Airbus industrie A321 is an improved version of the narrow-body A320 with two engines - the cabin is longer, which means more seats.

Airbus A321 Turkish Airlines

use two modifications of the aircraft cabin Airbus A321. They differ in the number of seats in business class and economy cabin. Let's consider them in more detail to determine best and worst places.

Option 1

In the first variant, the layout of the cabin consists of two classes of service: business and economy. Each one has more and less comfortable places. Consider the salons in more detail.

Business Class

In business class, there are three rows of three seats on both sides. However, the middle seat always remains free for the convenience of passengers; tickets for it are not sold. Plenty of space between chairs. There is a separate bathroom, next to the kitchen. If you're looking for a comfortable, catered flight highest level, then the seats in this row are just for you.

Economy class

In the economy class, the seats are arranged according to the “3:3” pattern in a row, except for the 9th and 23rd rows - they do not have seats A, F. The toilet rooms that are intended for this class are located only at the end of the aircraft.

Economy class starts from 4 rows and ends at 34. The first row after the business class is separated from it by a partition. This causes some discomfort, because. there may be a sense of confinement. But on the other hand, more free legroom is allocated.

The location of the seats in the cabin. Click to enlarge

Seats located near emergency exits may not be occupied by all passengers. Cannot fly in these seats: children, pregnant women, the disabled and foreigners who do not speak Turkish or English. It is necessary to store luggage during the flight on a special shelf; it is forbidden to leave it near the aisle.

• 34 row- the last in the cabin. Behind it are the toilets. This guarantees pandemonium, unpleasant smell and noise. And the backs of the seats are not movable. All this makes the 34th row the most inconvenient for travel.

Best Places

• 1-3 rows - business class;
• 9 row seats B, C, D, E;
• 10 row - A and F;
• 24 row.

Worst Places

• 8 row;
• 23 row seats B, C, D, E;
• 34 row.

Option 2

The second option for placing seats in the Airbus A321 airliner " Turkish Airlines» also includes 2 salons: business and economy.

Business Class

In this variation of the layout of the aircraft cabin seats in the business class, there are 5 rows, but there are 2 seats on each side, there is no free space between the seats, so passengers here feel more cramped than in the "business" option 1. In general, the salon has the same characteristics and privileges as option 1.

Economy class

This class starts from row 6 and continues up to row 32.

The layout of the cabin in the Airbus A321. Click to enlarge

6 row located immediately after the partition and before the emergency exit. All this gives extra legroom, but also a feeling of an enclosed space, motionless seatbacks.

7 row similar to the 9th row of option 1, 8th row - 10th row.

20 and 21 rows similar to 23 and 24 rows of variation 1.

32 row- the last row. It has the same characteristics as the 34th row of the previous version.

Best Places

• 1-5 rows - business class;
• 7 row seats B, C, D, E;
• 8 row - A, F;
• 21 row.

Worst Places

• 6 row;
• 20 row seats B, C, D, E;
• 32 row.

In order for the flight to be comfortable and leave only positive impressions, before buying tickets, you should familiarize yourself with the layout of the aircraft cabin and choose for yourself best places. Enjoy your flight on the Airbus A321 with Turkish Airlines!

The Airbus A321 is the next generation of the Airbus A320 and has a longer version. The A321 is the largest of the entire A320 family. The Airbus A321 can carry 16 passengers in first class and 169 in economy class. The total number of passenger seats is 185.

Airbus A321 photo

Budget operators and charter flights fly only in economy classes, then the number of passenger seats increases to 220 seats. If you want your flight to be comfortable, it is better to familiarize yourself with the aircraft diagram in advance. The scheme of the Airbus 321 aircraft is presented on the Aeroflot website, which makes it easier to find the best places before the trip.

Now it is worth considering in more detail the configuration of this airbus at Aeroflot. The most popular air carrier has 30 A321 aircraft, and produces regular domestic, international, charter flights. The figure below shows a diagram of the Airbus A321 cabin to make it easier for passengers to navigate. There are business class and economy class seats.

The best seats on the A321

So, we go to the website of the most popular air carrier, we find the section "Reference Information", then "On Board", then "Scheme seats”, and then we choose the Airbus A321 (cabin diagram) - the best places of Aeroflot here can be clearly seen. It is worth dwelling in more detail on the best and worst seats on the plane, we will explain why it is better to take one or another seat or not to take it.

As can be seen from the figure, the best places the eighth row and seats A and F in "line" 20 are considered. Rows 1-7 are provided for business class passengers, here the distance between the seats is wider, the passage is larger. However, it is better not to choose the first and seventh rows, because the first row is located near the toilet, and the seventh is close to the economy class, and there, as a rule, it is noisier than in the business class.

Good, standard, bad seats in the Airbus A321

Looking at the A321 aircraft (diagram), the best seats seem to be in eighth row. The fact is that there is an emergency exit, so there is plenty of legroom. And getting up from these places, you will not disturb any of the neighbors. Also, these places are located at the beginning of the plane, which means that food will be delivered from your seats. The eighth row is rightfully considered a place of increased comfort.

Rows 9 to 17 there are standard places, and now row 18 it differs in that there is a toilet nearby and this is not very comfortable for passengers, there will almost always be near you:

• queue to the toilet room;
• often walk people;
• can hook if you are sitting in the last row.

Salon Airbus A321

Passengers 19 row there will be enough free space to put your feet, only there is a toilet nearby, which can spoil the impression when traveling. But the seats of the 20th row compare favorably with the presence of free legroom, and the presence of a porthole through which you can admire the beauties of flying countries, seas, oceans.

Rows 21 to 30 standard places follow again, nothing particularly stands out, either for good or for bad. But places C and D of the 30th row and the whole 31st are considered bad. "Line" 31 is again, near the toilet, and the backs of the seats of the last row do not recline. Food and drinks will be brought to you last, there is no way to speed up the process here, you will have to wait until the flight attendants serve all the passengers sitting in front of you. Take these places only as a last resort, if you need to fly, and there are no other options.

On October 30, Airbus 321-231 of Kogalymavia Airlines successfully completed two flights on the route Sharm el-Sheikh - Samara - Sharm el-Sheikh. The PIC's handover crew Dmitry Zhigalkovich and co-pilot Yuri Yushko do not express any comments on the liner. Already in the early morning of October 31, the plane will have two more scheduled flights: Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg - Sharm el-Sheikh. The board is already accepting the following crew: an experienced 48-year-old Valery Nemov, who has flown over 12,000 hours, and 45-year-old co-pilot Sergei Trukhachev, a former military pilot who went through the Chechen campaign.

On board, 217 passengers will be waiting for them, most of them are Petersburgers, many are returning home with their families from a long-awaited vacation in Egypt. At 03:50:06 local time (06:50 Moscow time), flight 7K-9268 takes off from Sharm el-Sheikh, after which, following the air corridor along the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, it begins to climb.

In St. Petersburg, the plane, bypassing the Sinai Peninsula, will have to arrive at 12:10 local time, on a typical Saturday October afternoon, along with dozens of other domestic and international flights listed on the Pulkovo board. But neither then, nor after several delays that appeared on the scoreboard, the long-awaited flight 9268 did not return to its homeland.

A few days after the catastrophe in the sky over Egypt, Flightradar will publish data on the last flight of the A321 over Sinai. According to a report published on the website, the plane took off safely and began to climb, moving parallel to the coast. Within minutes after the liner turned inland, its altitude begins to plummet to 6,000 feet. Communication with the aircraft is lost. The first media reports that the aircraft Airbus airlines"Kogalymavia" disappeared from the radar, they begin to appear only at 10:18 Moscow time. In short news items, the data differ significantly: according to the information contained in them, there were from 207 to 224 people on board. Some reports say the plane went missing in the Larnaca area of ​​Cyprus.

Flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, operated by Airbus 321 "Kogalymavia", took off at 6:21 Moscow time and disappeared from the radar screens after 23 minutes, there were 217 passengers and seven crew members on board, the Federal Air Transport Agency reported.

The count goes on for a moment - two minutes later there is news from the Arab media, which reported that a Russian plane crashed in the central part of the Sinai Peninsula. But the data is still scarce and not backed up by official confirmation. Hope is preserved. At 10:42 am, Reuters and Sky News publish the first reports disproving the plane crash. Sources of publications claim that the crew of the missing aircraft got in touch in Turkey. Flightradar also does not confirm the fall, specifying that the airliner sharply lowered its altitude before disappearing from radar.

The Federal Air Transport Agency reports that they are trying to contact the flight that disappeared from the radar. At 11:44, Pulkovo's online scoreboard still contains information that the flight from Sharm el-Sheikh is delayed (from 12:10 to 12:20). But already closer to 12, citing sources in the Federal Air Transport Agency, most media publish information about the crash of an airliner over Sinai Peninsula. In Pulkovo, where by that time the information about the arrival has disappeared from the scoreboard, the emergency headquarters begins operational work, the Russian Emergencies Ministry is preparing two aircraft for shipment to Egypt. Later, the agency decides to send five special aircraft to Egypt.

Search teams discovered the crash site among the mountains of the Sinai Peninsula. The wreckage of the liner was scattered over 13 kilometers.

The search operation took place in difficult conditions: North Sinai is a closed zone, for a year now the Egyptian army has been conducting a large-scale operation there against militants of an extremist group associated with ISIS (the activity of the group is prohibited in Russia by decision of the Supreme Court. - Note. ed.). It was the Egyptian military, patrolling the area, who first discovered the wreckage of the liner. The plane crashed in the An-Nakhal mountain range, deserted, waterless and deserted place. According to updated and officially confirmed information, there were 224 people on board the aircraft, including seven crew members. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, among the passengers of the liner were 192 adults and 25 children. They all died.

Dear Amalia, 28 years ago you gave the world a wonderful boy. Every mother dreams of such a son and a girl dreams of such a reliable and loving man nearby. A year ago, photographs of all the dead were published, I immediately remembered Armen's face, it attracts the eye with its kind and pure smile, this is the face of a purposeful and very decent young man. I didn't know him, but I'm terribly sorry for Armen. Such boys were obliged to live and give the world beautiful children. But, unfortunately, another world, black and evil, took his life. Strength and health to you. Thank you for being such a son. Insanely sorry ... Blessed memory of Armen and a heavenly birthday. (Tatiana Svetlova, St. Petersburg), - such letters, a year after the tragedy, continue to receive relatives of those killed in terrible plane crash over Sinai.

On October 26, a few days before the plane crash, Armen Vishnev, a native of the city of Pushkin, who served in the Federal Customs Service, turned 27 years old. Armen flew to Egypt to rest, in one of the last messages he asked his mother not to be bored, because the separation would not be long, he promised to bring a magnet or, as a joke, even a whole camel.

A year after the tragedy, Amalia carefully keeps all the photos and messages of her son. Caring residents of other regions of Russia and dozens of other relatives of the victims of the plane crash help her to honor the memory and survive the grief of loss. The tragedy brought together more than 36 thousand people on the Web. Through the efforts of St. Petersburg residents, the Flight 9268 charity foundation was created, which now provides support to people who have lost loved ones in the disaster over Sinai.

The main goal for which we have united is to perpetuate the memory of our relatives in the deeds that we are able to accomplish: the creation of a memorial and a temple, the preservation of memories of our loved ones, helping the families of the victims who need financial, legal and psychological support. Our foundation is not just an attempt to rally around a common cause. This is a protest against terrorism, murder, cruelty and injustice. A great journey starts with a small step. And we are taking this step all together - this is the goal set by people whose lives the tragedy divided into before and after the disaster.

Foundation group in social networks has long become a kind of spontaneous book of memory, where you can find out the latest information about the investigation of the tragedy, see again the photos of all those who did not return home from the ill-fated flight, and also provide all possible assistance to relatives and friends.

And it’s not just about money: any support is valuable, because even after a year, practice shows that time does not heal, and a long investigation and difficult bureaucratic procedures associated with the payment of compensation only exacerbate the already unrelenting pain of loss.

The tragedy cut short the lives of entire families: Olga and Yuri Shein and their three children died in the disaster. The whole country from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok was shocked to the core by the love story of Alexandra Chernova and Yevgeny Yavsin on board the A321: Evgeny specially saved money to take Sasha to Egypt and propose to her there.
And dozens of other life-long stories that ended so unfairly and suddenly on that ill-fated October morning. Most of the passengers of the crashed A321 were residents of the North-West of Russia, mainly from St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Novgorod and Pskov regions. Also on board were four citizens of Ukraine and one citizen of Belarus. Flight 9268" by Irina Zakharova, the remains that are now stored in the crematorium on Shafirovsky Prospekt are not subject to examination. However, the families still have hope to receive fragments of the bodies of their dead relatives: in Egypt, after the completion of the main stage of the investigation, new remains were discovered, they are now being studied.

The report of the international commission to investigate the crash of the Russian A321 over Sinai has not yet been made public: on the preliminary results of its work (and this is a year after the investigation), according to a source in the Ministry civil aviation Egypt, experts will tell "within 60 days."

Certain technical analyzes are now being carried out, after which a preliminary report will be made public, a spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Aviation told the media on October 26.

Recall that representatives of six countries take part in the investigation of the causes of the disaster: Egypt, Russia, as well as specialists from France, Germany, Ireland and the United States. Its course, in accordance with the rules of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is led by the aviation authorities of Egypt.
One of the first versions of the disaster was the assumption that the Russian plane could have been shot down by a missile fired by militants operating in the North Sinai region. However, this assumption was almost immediately refuted by experts as untenable. For a long time, experts worked out another probable cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia airliner - a version of technical problems. This was announced on the day of the crash by the operational services of Egypt following a preliminary examination of the wreckage of the aircraft. At the initial stage of the investigation, Russian specialists were inclined to the same version.

Representatives of Kogalymavia (trademark Metrojet) were the first to refute it: already on November 2, the airline's press secretary Alexander Smirnov ruled out a technical malfunction and pilot error as the causes of the disaster and announced "external influence" on the liner. He stressed that the aircraft, which the airline owned under a lease, was 100% ready to fly and that its crew was "very experienced." The representative of the company supported his speech with certificates received by the airline in early 2015. He also stated that the plane's engine was checked on October 26, five days before the crash.

On November 7, the IAC reported that until the end of recording on the registrars, the flight took place in the normal mode, there was no information about the failures of the aircraft's systems and assemblies.

At a meeting in the Kremlin on November 16, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, officially announced for the first time that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Versions of third-party interference with links to various sources were published earlier in foreign and Russian media. “We can definitely say that this is a terrorist act,” Bortnikov said, adding that traces of a foreign-made explosive were found on the wreckage and things. - According to our experts, an improvised explosive device with a capacity of up to 1 kg of TNT went off on board the aircraft in flight, as a result of which the aircraft fell apart in the air, which explains the dispersion of parts of the aircraft fuselage at a great distance.

Bortnikov explained that the conclusions were made by specialists after a thorough examination of personal belongings, passengers' luggage and parts of the wrecked liner.

At first it was assumed that the explosive device was planted under passenger seat 30A or 31A. However, in September 2016, the data of the commission were made public, according to which the explosion occurred in the tail section, in the compartment for oversized baggage. The time bomb was hidden among the baby carriages. Experts came to this conclusion after analyzing the layout of the assembled A321 fragments in the hangar of Cairo airport. Due to the explosion, the aircraft lost its tail section, after which it went into an uncontrolled dive.

The investigation into the tragedy is progressing very slowly, and all the circumstances of the incident are still unknown. Responsibility for the crash Russian aircraft almost immediately, an Egyptian cell of the Islamic State group banned in Russia took over. The airport employees could have carried the explosive device on board - numerous evidence of a weak level of security in the air harbor immediately after the tragedy flooded the Internet: many tourists said that for a small bribe they calmly carried bags with things through all the security cordons, and no one examined them. However, the Egyptian side for a long time insisted on the version of a technical malfunction, refusing to admit the possibility of a terrorist attack on board the liner. In December 2015, the Technical Investigation Committee issued a statement saying that Cairo had found no evidence of terrorist involvement in the Airbus 321 crash. Sinai was a terrorist attack. The head of state stated this at the presentation of a report on the development of the country until 2030.

On August 30, 2016, it was announced that Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who was allegedly the organizer of the attack, had been killed in Aleppo, Syria.

Air traffic with Egypt, which was terminated immediately after the crash of the A321, has not yet been restored. In accordance with the official commentary of the Russian Ministry of Transport, the situation will not change until all the remarks in the field of aviation security are eliminated.

A decision to resume air traffic between Russia and Egypt is possible only after the elimination of all comments in the field of aviation and transport security. It is worth noting that the Egyptian side has made significant progress in resolving these issues and the interaction between the two countries is quite constructive, the department noted on October 25.

The Garden of Memory, which will be located on Rumbolovskaya Hill in Vsevolozhsk, will be completed and fresh flowers will bloom here. the wind will play, anyone who will pass along the Road of Life will see.

On Monday, October 31, a memorial service will be held in St. Isaac's Cathedral for the victims of the A321 crash in the sky over the Sinai Peninsula. In memory of those who never returned home to their relatives and friends, the bell of the cathedral will strike 224 times.

A motley crowd of tourists, a vibrant underwater world that attracts divers from all over the world - all this attracts travelers. The Russians were eager to go there, as if they were going to a second dacha: at least a week to rest from work and fry in the sun. Whole families flew until the plane crash in Egypt on October 31, 2015 forced the whole country to shudder.

Tragic incident

Tourist group of the company "Briscoe" was returning charter flight from Sharm El Sheikh to Saint Petersburg. Despite the early morning (departure at 5.50 local time), the passengers were in a great mood. They posted pictures of a successful holiday on social networks. It was Saturday, and on Monday, many had to plunge into someone waiting for work, someone - study.

Airliner Airbus A321-231 EI-ETJ, which arrived from Samara, took on board 217 passengers. They and seven crew members by 12 o'clock in the afternoon were to be in northern capital, where many relatives and friends were waiting at the airport. Having gained a predetermined altitude of 9400 meters in 23 minutes, at a speed of 520 km / h, the aircraft suddenly disappeared from the radar. At 6:15 a.m. (7:15 a.m. Moscow time), the plane crashed near the Sinai Peninsula near El Arish Airport, the hottest point in Egypt, where al-Qaeda Islamists opposed government forces.

Versions of the tragedy

Those meeting flight 9268 at Pulkovo Airport were anxiously watching the board, which displayed the information: "Arrival delayed." And by evening, the whole country already knew that the wreckage of the aircraft that had disappeared from the radar had been discovered by the Egyptian authorities. Scattered over a distance of 13 kilometers, with a detached tail, they were shown on television, which caused many versions of specialists about possible reasons disasters. Three were considered the most reliable:

• Technical problems associated with either engine failure or metal fatigue. In the tail section, traces of plating repair were found after an aircraft touched the asphalt when landing at Cairo airport in 2001. The resulting microcrack could cause the destruction of the aircraft with a climb.
• The plane crash in Egypt is the crew's mistakes.
• Terrorist act.

At the site of the tragedy, an IAC commission headed by Egyptian representative Ayman al-Mukkadam began to work. It included representatives of Russia, France, Germany, the USA and Ireland. After studying the evidence and deciphering, the first two versions were declared invalid.

Aircraft

The A321 crash over the Sinai Peninsula was the largest in the history of Egypt and modern Russia. The airbus belonged to the Kogalymavia company, which was subjected to a thorough check. It was found that after emergency In 2001, the repair of the aircraft was carried out in France at the manufacturing plant, after which all the necessary tests were carried out. For 18 years of operation, the liner flew less than 50% of its resource (57428 hours) and was in good condition. This is evidenced by weekly technical checks, the last of which was carried out on 10/26/2015. The flight recorders did not detect a malfunction in the systems. Until the 23rd minute, the flight went quite normally.

Crew

Forty-eight-year-old crew commander Valery Nemov is a graduate of SVAAULS (Stavropol military school). He is one of the few who in the difficult 90s retrained to fly Airbuses since 2008, having 12,000 flight hours, which testifies to his colossal experience. The co-pilot also came from military aviation, being a veteran of the Chechen campaign. After retiring, Sergei Trukhachev retrained on the A321, having been trained in the Czech Republic. I flew them for over 2 years. The total flight time was 6 thousand hours. Both pilots were in good standing with their airline. Nemov was even prematurely summoned from vacation to be sent to a sad famous flight 9268.

Official version

Two weeks after the tragedy, the version of the terrorist attack was officially announced by the head of the FSB during a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation. In support of his words, he cited the following evidence:

1. American satellites recorded a thermal flash over Sinai during the crash, which indicates an explosion on board the aircraft.
2. A fragment of the fuselage has a hole with a diameter of about one meter. Its edges are curved outward. This indicates that the source of the explosion was inside.
3. When deciphering the recorder, fixing the negotiations, before interrupting the recording, extraneous noise is heard, the nature of which can be attributed to a blast wave.
4. The plane crash in Egypt caused a great public outcry. After a while, they not only recognized responsibility for the terrorist attack, but also posted a photo of an improvised explosive device (IED) on the pages of Dabig magazine.
5. Some of the victims were found to have injuries indicating death from the consequences of the explosion (burns, tissue ruptures).
6. In fragments of fragments, luggage and on the body of the victims, traces of explosives were found - molecules of TNT.

The power of the explosion was estimated at 1 kilogram. The alleged location of the IED is the tail section of the aircraft. For the blast wave moved forward, but the fracture of the fuselage prevented its further advancement.

Plane crash in Egypt: who is to blame?

After the appearance of the Russian version, it became known that 17 employees were detained at the Egyptian airport. The main question was one: "How did the IEDs get on board the liner?" The FSB began to study the biographies of 34 passengers (11 men and 23 women) who had TNT molecules on their bodies. But official Egypt soon declared that there was no evidence for an unequivocal assertion of a terrorist attack on board the aircraft. None of the employees were actually arrested. The Russian authorities have announced a $50 million reward for any information about the terrorists.

Only in February 2016 did the President of Egypt officially acknowledge the attack. It was found that the bomb was made from plastite used to create live ammunition. It is powered by clockwork. The plane crash in Egypt on October 31, 2015 showed that the security system at the airport does not meet international standards. The IED could have gotten on board with the food company through employees with access to the runway, as well as through hand luggage during baggage check. The latest data is that it was in the cabin in the immediate vicinity of place 31A. All these facts led to the ban on the sale of holiday tours in Egypt.

Flight passengers

EI-ETJ - the last digits of the Airbus number. According to them, the aviators called the board among themselves "Juliet", affectionately - "Julia". On that tragic morning, she broke three aviation marriages and ruined a young steward who came on as a substitute instead of quitting due to bad dream colleague. She also claimed the lives of 217 passengers, 25 of whom were children. Those killed in a plane crash in Egypt are entire families, dozens of ruined love stories, babies who are never destined to become adults. Ten-month-old Darina Gromova flew on this flight with her parents. Her mother posted a picture of her social network before departure. Girl standing at the airport facing runway, and below the signature: "Main Passenger". This picture has become a symbol tragic flight from which no one has been able to return.

Almost all passengers are Russians, 4 people are citizens of Ukraine, 1 - Belarus. The majority are residents of St. Petersburg, although there are also representatives of other regions: Pskov, Novgorod, Ulyanovsk. Those who died in a plane crash in Egypt are people of various professions. Even while relatives were engaged in the identification of bodies, caring people formed a collective portrait of passengers, bit by bit collecting information about them. A wonderful gallery was created, where there were many good words about each.

Almost a year later

On July 31, Moscow and St. Petersburg held a rally in memory of those killed over Sinai. Nine months have passed: many relatives received compensation, identified and buried their loved ones, but the pain did not subside. On August 5, 2016, it was reported that forty-five militants led by Abu Dua al-Ansari, who was responsible for the plane crash in Egypt, were killed during a military operation near El Arish. I really want to believe that this will never happen again!

The airbus a321 aircraft is a modified model of the world-famous A 320 aircraft. But, unlike its “big brother”, this model has more powerful engines, better brakes and a longer length (increased to 44.5 meters, that is, longer And 320 by 7 meters and can "take" on board 24% more passengers). It is also interesting that this aircraft was assembled not in France (Toulouse), familiar to the A320, but in Germany (Hamburg).

Note! Aircraft A321 - narrow-body. It serves on medium-haul airlines.

Who is the manufacturer

The aircraft are manufactured by the Airbus Industry (Airbus S.A.S) consortium and its member companies such as DASA, which developed the A321-200. Airbus is one of the largest passenger airliner companies in the world.

Date of release of the model and modification

There are two modifications of this aircraft: A321-100 and A321-200. A321-100, in turn, also has two options: with V2500 engines (A321-130) and CFM56 engines (A321-110). The program for the development of aircraft of this model was launched back in 1989. Trial flights of two models were made in 1993, all the necessary documentation was issued in 1994, and deliveries to airlines began at the end of 1994 – early 1995. For the first time, aircraft of this type were put on flights by the German company Lufthansa and the Italian Alitalia.

Aircraft A321-100 could not become worthy competitors 757 Boeing. That is why the possibility of releasing a new modification with an increased take-off weight and a greater flight range was considered. For the first time, the creation of the A321-200 was discussed back in 1994. The Airbus A321-200 was supposed to serve long European routes and routes directly linking the US coasts.

The idea of ​​a more advanced modification, with additional fuel tanks for 2900 liters, fell in love with the airlines, and work on the aircraft began. He made his first flight in 1996.

Work is currently underway on the A321 NEO. They are equipped with new economical engines, which are now being promoted by Airbus. Fuel economy on such an aircraft will be around 16 percent (and when installing such an engine on an old aircraft of the same series – 15-14%). Also, this aircraft is designed for a long range (the indicator is increased by 950 km) and for a large payload (the difference with the old models is 2 tons), engineers improved the rate of climb, increased cruising speed. In addition, all A321 NEO aircraft will be equipped with the signature Sharklets wing (translated as “shark fin”). These are wingtip-type winglets (curved to the top). Such a wing was developed by Airbus.

Engineers say that it is capable of:

• improve the overall aerodynamics of the aircraft;
• reduce inductive resistance (due to the disappearance of the vortex breaking off the swept wing);
• reduce fuel consumption over long distances by 3.5%;
• increase payload and flight range.

It is clear that aircraft with such characteristics will become commercially promising and many world airlines will want to purchase them.

Capacity, range, speed, altitude

All aircraft of the A321 series are equipped with EFIS avionics. They allow you to monitor all indicators during the flight and track possible failures of on-board systems.

When designing aircraft, a variety of composite materials were used (especially when creating wings, vertical and horizontal stabilizers).

If speak about technical specifications, then they are as follows (for example, A321-200).

Characteristics of A321-200

Airplane seating plan

The standard Airbus A321 is an aircraft divided into two classes with a total of 185 seats. 157 seats are in economy class in a 3-3 pattern, and 28 seats are in business class in a 2-2 pattern. The width of the cabin is 3.7 meters, the seats are soft and comfortable. The undoubted advantages is that the interior is equipped with good sound insulation.

In some aircraft (for example, those operating on charter lines), the standard equipment has been changed. In such aircraft there is no division into classes. The total number of seats is 220.

There are also packages such as:

• 28 business class seats + 142 economy class seats;
• 16 business class seats + 167 economy class seats.

Note! The plane has 6 doors and 8 emergency exits. Their location is provided on both sides of the aircraft.

Description of seats by blocks of rows

Let's consider the standard two-class (28-157) configuration of the aircraft a 321 with the layout of the cabin in rows and determine the pros and cons of all seats on the aircraft.

Comparative characteristics of seats on the plane

Thus, when choosing seats, you need to be guided by two factors: their proximity to the toilets, kitchen, technical room and the presence of a partition nearby (the chairs will not recline). Large people are best placed on row 8 or 20, but here are the most comfortable places for those traveling with children (row 19 is also suitable in this case, since the proximity of the toilets will be a plus, not a minus, you won’t have to go with the child through the whole salon).

Note! Window seats and aisle seats have their own advantages and disadvantages. It is easier to go to the toilet from a seat near the aisle, at the same time, no one will disturb the person sitting by the window. The choice is up to the passenger: hoping to sleep or work - choose a window seat, think that you will often go to the toilet - take an aisle seat.

Entertainment system on board, sockets, wifi

As standard, the aircraft has 4 kitchens and 4 restrooms. There is a wardrobe in business class. There are also 6 seats for flight attendants.

Seats for women with children with special attachments for cradles are located in business class (1 row, 4 seats) with cabin layout 28-142 and in economy class (8 row, 6 seats) with cabin layout 16-167 and 28-157.

At the moment, about 1000 aircraft of the A321 series have been produced and, since they are in demand, production continues.

These aircraft are part of the Aeroflot fleet. A321 Aeroflot is a successful aircraft that is operated to the maximum on regional lines.

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