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The week's tally

AirbusvsBoeing:
who flies you out of Manila?

Every departure that actually left NAIA in the past week, tallied by the company that built the plane. The tally refreshes once a day.

Airbus85%2,045 departuresWinner
Boeing15%361 departures

2,406 departures counted6 Oct to 13 Oct

Pick a departure at random and you get an Airbus about six times out of seven.

What you'll actually board

The models each side flies out of Manila most often.

Airbus

85% of departures
  • A320-200708
  • A321-200375
  • A320-200N345
  • A321-200NX265
  • A330-900113
  • A330-300104
  • A350-90043

Boeing

15% of departures
  • 777-300(ER)136
  • 737 MAX 857
  • 737-80057
  • 787-945
  • 787-823
  • 777-30020
  • 787-1015

Who flies what

Of the twenty busiest airlines this week, four flew Airbus alone and seven flew Boeing alone. The other nine flew a mix.

  1. Cebu Pacific tail livery
    Cebu Pacific873 departures

    All Airbus

  2. Philippine Airlines tail livery
    Philippine Airlines733 departures

    93% Airbus 7% Boeing

  3. Philippines AirAsia tail livery
    Philippines AirAsia245 departures

    All Airbus

  4. Cathay Pacific tail livery
    Cathay Pacific42 departures

    67% Airbus 33% Boeing

  5. Singapore Airlines tail livery
    Singapore Airlines35 departures

    60% Airbus 40% Boeing

  6. Xiamen Air tail livery
    Xiamen Air32 departures

    All Boeing

  7. Emirates tail livery
    Emirates27 departures

    All Boeing

  8. China Southern Airlines tail livery
    China Southern Airlines25 departures

    All Boeing

  9. Malaysia Airlines tail livery
    Malaysia Airlines25 departures

    All Boeing

  10. EVA Air tail livery
    EVA Air21 departures

    48% Airbus 52% Boeing

  11. Korean Air tail livery
    Korean Air21 departures

    33% Airbus 67% Boeing

  12. United Airlines tail livery
    United Airlines19 departures

    All Boeing

  13. China Airlines tail livery
    China Airlines18 departures

    All Airbus

  14. Qatar Airways tail livery
    Qatar Airways17 departures

    All Boeing

  15. Air China tail livery
    Air China15 departures

    73% Airbus 27% Boeing

  16. Scoot tail livery
    Scoot14 departures

    79% Airbus 21% Boeing

  17. Thai Airways tail livery
    Thai Airways14 departures

    All Airbus

  18. Etihad Airways tail livery
    Etihad Airways14 departures

    50% Airbus 50% Boeing

  19. Asiana Airlines tail livery
    Asiana Airlines14 departures

    50% Airbus 50% Boeing

  20. All Nippon Airways tail livery
    All Nippon Airways14 departures

    All Boeing

How the count works

Only departures out of Manila count, and only when they actually flew: a flight needs a real departure time, so cancelled and still-scheduled flights stay out. Arrivals are left out, the same way the site's other traffic counts work.

Cargo runs are excluded, and a flight only counts when the exact airframe that operated it is known. That rule drops most of the small turboprops, so ATRs and Dash 8s show up less here than they do on the apron.

Aircraft types fold into their canonical model first, so an A320-214 and an A320-232 both land in the A320-200 column. The window covers the past seven days and the numbers refresh about once a day.

ByMikko Gozalo, the person behind Better NAIA. He is a data scientist by day and loves tinkering with websites at night.

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