>>1217757I'd suggest the 747-8I
The -8F is selling like hotcakes to the cargo airlines, but the -8I sold to just Lufthansa, Korean Air. One other airline bought them but went bankrupt before delivery. Those 8Is are being converted to VC-25Bs. The only other people who have bought -8Is have been governments and business people for VIP transports.
>>1217750>Except the A300 did it worse, and too soon to ever be commercially successful on the passenger side.Airbus was, at the time, unproven and not many airlines were willing to buy in, at least not in large amounts. Plus, the A310, which did middle of market before that was even a thing, failed commercially, but not as badly as something like the A318 several years later. The A310 is probably a big reason as to why Airbus is going for the A321LR over a new design.
>>1217764>The -9 couldn't match the A321neo and didn't offer any real optimized uses over it, which is why most have switched to the -10, which itself can't match the range of the A321neo but does have he added capacity to make a stronger business case against it on short haul routes.Ryanair is going to get 100 MAX-8 aircraft, which will be branded "MAX-200", so called for the passenger capacity. Thing is, the MAX-8 is still outsold by the A320neo, despite the MAX-8 having a larger overall capacity, longer range, heavier MTOW and MLW, shorter take off and landing distance, higher thrust output and just higher tolerances. Something about the A320neo is making airlines line up for it and not the MAX-8.
