British Airways’ All-Business-Class A318 Flights From London City To New York JFK

Recently, airlines have deployed more narrowbody aircraft on long-haul flights across the Atlantic Ocean. With Airbus’ A321XLR inching closer to entry into scheduled operations, the trend of deploying smaller aircraft across the ocean is only strengthening.

However, before innovations created the promising economics of traditionally short-haul planes, British Airways sent its smallest mainline aircraft-the Airbus A318- across the pond to New York. Starting over a decade ago and ending…