Air France is now the only Airbus A318 operator left

[Mattg]

Romanian airline TAROM has just retired its last Airbus A318, leaving Air France as the only commercial airline still flying them.

Tarom sells its four A318s and only Air France will continue flying the "Baby Bus" - Air Data News

Airbus’ biggest commercial failure, the A318 is about to lose one of its only two operating airlines, Tarom.

www.airdatanews.com

I've still never managed to fly on the "baby bus". Might have to try to book an AF flight on one before they're all gone.

Has anyone here flown on an A318? They were always pretty rare anyway, with only 81 ever built.

 

[Scarlett]

What did BA do with the 318s they used to fly into LCY? Did they sell them to AF?

 

[Mwenenzi]

What did BA do with the 318s they used to fly into LCY? Did they sell them to AF?

Here is one that did NY route BA2 & BA3 Now recycled

https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a318-4039.htm

May not be accurate--> https://www.airfleets.net/listing/a318-1.htm

 

[Scarlett]

Right, so AF still using them for RPT and then a diverse collection of state and charter operators using ‘biz-jet’ configurations.

Looks like all the ex-BA birds were scrapped.

 

[9171]

Romanian airline TAROM has just retired its last Airbus A318, leaving Air France as the only commercial airline still flying them.

Tarom sells its four A318s and only Air France will continue flying the "Baby Bus" - Air Data News

Airbus’ biggest commercial failure, the A318 is about to lose one of its only two operating airlines, Tarom.

www.airdatanews.com

I've still never managed to fly on the "baby bus". Might have to try to book an AF flight on one before they're all gone.

Has anyone here flown on an A318? They were always pretty rare anyway, with only 81 ever built.

Have flown the A318 quite a few times, on Avianca. I think maybe on Lan Chile also (before they became LATAM)? Externally, they look a bit cute (small?), but once inside obviously all much of a muchness. Having said that, the first time I saw an A321 it looked bizarre, like, stretched!

 

[PERLHR]

I recall flying Iberia A318 between Gibraltar and Madrid when they ran the route in mid noughties.

 

[jase05]

Have been on them a couple of time CDG-AMS and they did their job. Euro J feels the same in most aircraft TBH