Airbus are trying as hard as they possibly can to dominate the single-aisle medium-haul commercial flight market and that’s why they have revealed plans to release a larger dual-sourced engine-selection variant of their relatively new but troubled A220 line-up called the A220-500 or NEO as they intend to turn things up a notch. The A220NEO is expected to replace Airbus’s ageing A320 line-up and properly compete in the same airspaces as Boeing’s 737MAX.

To understand why the A220Neo will replace the 737MAX, we need to first get a brief introduction to the A220 line-up so we can have an idea of what the A220NEO will be bringing.