It’s Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane Art.

This week, we have a Qatar Airways Airbus A320 at Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport as it is turned around for the return flight to Doha (with a flyDubai Boeing 737 hiding behind it).

Qatar Airways operates a fleet of 28 active A320 aircraft in its fleet. The airline also operates the Boeing 737 MAX 8 in its single-aisle fleet. These aircraft are used on thinner routes that cannot support a widebody aircraft (such as an Airbus A330 or Boeing 787), or routes that require frequency over capacity, with the longest missions being under five hours.

This aircraft – A7-AHA – was the class leader for Qatar Airways, being the first Airbus A320 to join the airline. The aircraft joined the fleet in December 2009, remaining in active service with the airline. The aircraft is active at the time of writing, operating out of its home of Hamad International Airport, Doha to Amman, Basra, Amritsar, Tbilisim, Baghdad, Bucharest, Alexandria, Ahmedabad, Multan and Sofia.

More Airplane Art next week.

Photographers Notes:

• Camera: Canon EOS R50
• Lens: Canon RF-S 15-45mm f4.5-f6.3
• Settings: ISO 100, 45mm, 1/125 at f8. And you can bet this image was cropped
• Shot from Just past the security screening area at Bucharest Airport
• Shot 24th January 2024

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