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Aircraft deployment
Every aircraft type appearing in our BTS T-100 carrier rosters, ranked by route appearances. For each type: which carriers fly it, how many routes, average stage length, longest single route covered, and dominant corridor. Pure aggregation — no estimated values.
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The deployment table reads the per-carrier aircraft list on each BTS T-100 route in our sample, then rolls those up by aircraft type. Average flight hours separates short-haul from widebody-long-haul at a glance; the longest single route the type covers gives you the upper bound. Pairs naturally with the aircraft retrofit tracker — this page tells you what is flying; the tracker tells you whether the cabin inside has been refreshed.
At a glance
Five aggregate facts about deployment
Aircraft types in dataset
33
Distinct types named in the BTS T-100 carrier rosters we cover.
Widebody types (≥ 6 hr avg)
24
Types whose average route in the sample is at least six flight hours — proxy for widebody / mid-long-haul deployment.
Long-haul types (≥ 9 hr avg)
14
Types where the average route is genuinely long-haul. Twin-engine widebody dominates here.
Most-deployed type
Boeing 787-9
Appears on 104 routes via 178 carrier mentions. Average stage 10.4 hr.
Most operators (single type)
31
Distinct carriers operating the same aircraft type across our sample.
Source release
BTS T-100 Segment 2025
Public-domain US federal data. Aircraft text strings are normalized BTS reporting; we do not collapse variants (e.g. 777-300ER vs 777-200ER stay separate).
The deployment table
All 33 aircraft types
Sorted by route appearances, then by carrier mentions. Each column is a deterministic aggregation over BTS-reported carrier rosters.
| # | Aircraft type | Routes | Carrier mentions | Operators | Avg flight hrs | Longest route | Top corridor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boeing 787-9 | 104 | 178 | 31 | 10.4 | new york to male (20h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 2 | Boeing 777-300ER | 90 | 122 | 27 | 11.5 | los angeles to bali (20h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 3 | Airbus A350-900 | 79 | 100 | 16 | 10.4 | los angeles to bali (20h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 4 | Boeing 777-200ER | 59 | 83 | 13 | 9.3 | new york to mumbai (16h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 5 | Airbus A330-300 | 39 | 57 | 18 | 7.7 | portland to seoul (11.5h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 6 | Boeing 767-300ER | 36 | 36 | 1 | 8.4 | new york to istanbul (10.5h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 7 | Boeing 787-10 | 29 | 29 | 3 | 9.5 | los angeles to bali (20h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 8 | Boeing 737-800 | 28 | 71 | 8 | 2.3 | miami to mexico city (3.5h) | Other short / mid-haul |
| 9 | Airbus A320 | 27 | 66 | 7 | 2.3 | miami to mexico city (3.5h) | Other short / mid-haul |
| 10 | Boeing 747-8 | 26 | 26 | 2 | 9.2 | new york to beijing (14h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 11 | Airbus A330-200 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 8.3 | new york to lagos (11h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 12 | Airbus A380 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 13.7 | los angeles to bangkok (17h) | US ↔ Middle East |
| 13 | Airbus A350-1000 | 15 | 19 | 4 | 11.7 | new york to male (20h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 14 | Airbus A330-900neo | 15 | 16 | 6 | 9.5 | detroit to tokyo (14h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 15 | Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 2.8 | miami to mexico city (3.5h) | Other short / mid-haul |
| 16 | Airbus A330-900 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 9.1 | denver to rome (10h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 17 | Boeing 787-8 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 8.3 | new york to nairobi (15h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 18 | Airbus A220-300 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1.6 | salt lake city to toronto (2h) | Other short / mid-haul |
| 19 | Boeing 757-300 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 8.9 | minneapolis to frankfurt (9h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 20 | Airbus A321LR | 7 | 8 | 2 | 7.4 | new york to dubai (13h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 21 | Boeing 767-400ER | 7 | 7 | 1 | 8 | los angeles to london (10h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 22 | Boeing 757-200 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 6.1 | chicago to dublin (7.5h) | US Domestic |
| 23 | Airbus A321 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4.5 | new york to los angeles (5.5h) | US Domestic |
| 24 | Boeing 737-MAX-9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4.9 | new york to los angeles (5.5h) | US Domestic |
| 25 | Airbus A340-300 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8.3 | washington dc to frankfurt (8.5h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 26 | Airbus A350-900ULR | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17.3 | new york to singapore (18h) | Transpacific (US ↔ Asia) |
| 27 | Boeing 777-200LR | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15.7 | new york to mumbai (16h) | Transpacific (US ↔ Asia) |
| 28 | Airbus A321-Mint | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5.5 | new york to los angeles (5.5h) | US Domestic |
| 29 | Airbus A321T | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5.5 | new york to los angeles (5.5h) | US Domestic |
| 30 | Airbus A340-600 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | houston to frankfurt (10h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 31 | Airbus A321XLR | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | new york to dublin (6.5h) | Transatlantic (US ↔ Europe) |
| 32 | Boeing 737-MAX-8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | miami to sao paulo (9h) | Other long-haul |
| 33 | Airbus A321neo | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | new york to miami (3h) | US Domestic |
Operator breakouts
Who flies the top 8 most-deployed types
For each of the 8 most-deployed aircraft types in the dataset, the carriers operating them on the routes we cover.
Boeing 787-9
104 routes · 10.4 hr avg- United Airlines47 routes
- American Airlines39 routes
- Delta13 routes
- Virgin Atlantic12 routes
- ANA10 routes
- British Airways10 routes
- Japan Airlines9 routes
- Qantas4 routes
- + 23 other operators
Boeing 777-300ER
90 routes · 11.5 hr avg- Air France20 routes
- United Airlines14 routes
- ANA13 routes
- Emirates12 routes
- American Airlines10 routes
- British Airways8 routes
- Turkish Airlines7 routes
- Korean Air5 routes
- + 19 other operators
Airbus A350-900
79 routes · 10.4 hr avg- Lufthansa26 routes
- Air France18 routes
- Delta Air Lines14 routes
- Delta9 routes
- Turkish Airlines7 routes
- Singapore Airlines4 routes
- French Bee3 routes
- ITA Airways3 routes
- + 8 other operators
Boeing 777-200ER
59 routes · 9.3 hr avg- American Airlines41 routes
- United Airlines16 routes
- British Airways7 routes
- Delta7 routes
- LATAM2 routes
- Lufthansa2 routes
- ITA Airways2 routes
- El Al Israel Airlines1 route
- + 5 other operators
Airbus A330-300
39 routes · 7.7 hr avg- Delta15 routes
- Delta Air Lines11 routes
- United Airlines4 routes
- American Airlines4 routes
- Virgin Atlantic3 routes
- Aer Lingus3 routes
- British Airways3 routes
- Air Transat2 routes
- + 10 other operators
Boeing 767-300ER
36 routes · 8.4 hr avg- United Airlines36 routes
Boeing 787-10
29 routes · 9.5 hr avg- United Airlines25 routes
- KLM2 routes
- Singapore Airlines2 routes
Boeing 737-800
28 routes · 2.3 hr avg- United Airlines25 routes
- Delta16 routes
- American Airlines13 routes
- Southwest Airlines10 routes
- Aeromexico4 routes
- IndiGo1 route
- Emirates1 route
- Air India1 route
How to read it
Five practical reading angles
- Cabin-product likelihood.If you know the route, the “Top types on this corridor” framing tells you which aircraft you are most likely to encounter — combine with the retrofit tracker for the cabin-version reading.
- Operator-count proxy for depth. A type with 8+ operators is widely deployed; a type with 2 operators is a niche or proprietary fit.
- Stage-length as fleet-strategy signal. A type whose average creeps from 9 hr to 11 hr year over year is being pushed onto longer-haul work.
- Twin vs. quad. The relative position of the A380, 747-8, A340 vs. the 777, 787, A350, A330 makes the fleet-rationalization story visible without commentary.
- Cross-link to airline pages. The operator list per type doubles as a cross-link map: each carrier name links to its detail page on this site.
What this dataset is not
Five limitations to keep in mind
- Aircraft text strings are normalized BTS reporting — we do not collapse 777-300ER and 777-200ER, or A330-300 and A330-200, into a single “777” / “A330” bucket.
- Route-appearance count is binary per type per route — a type that flies 12 daily on a route counts the same as a type that flies once a week.
- Aircraft retrofit status is not encoded here — see the retrofit tracker for whether a deployed type carries the new cabin or the legacy one.
- Sub-fleet variants within a single type (high-density vs low-density A380 cabin layouts, for example) are not split.
- Coverage scope is the BTS T-100 sample on this site (198 routes), not every commercial flight in operation.
Methodology
Sources and aggregation rules
For each route in the BTS T-100 sample, we read the per-carrier aircraft list and count: distinct routes the type appears on, total carrier mentions across those routes, and a per-operator route count. Average flight hours is the simple mean of route flight hours weighted by route appearance — not by frequency or seat count, which BTS does not publish at this granularity.
The operator list for each type is sorted by route count (descending). Where two operators have the same count, the order falls back to the BTS reporting order on the most recent route they share. The corridor classification matches the rest of the data hub.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is "route appearances"?
Why does "carrier mentions" exceed "route appearances"?
Is this every aircraft in the global fleet?
How is this different from the aircraft retrofit tracker?
Why is the average flight hours useful?
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