Summary
- Over 1,300 A319s are globally used, primarily for short-haul, but some airlines operate longer routes.
- Myanmar Airways flies A319s from Yangon to Dubai, operating four times weekly, each flight lasting 6 hours.
- Ural Airlines flies A319s from Yekaterinburg to China, including trips to Harbin and Beijing.
The Airbus A319 is a short to medium member of the narrow-body Airbus A320 family of commercial jets. It is basically a variant of the A320 with a shortened fuselage (while the A321 has an elongated fuselage). The A319 can carry between 124 and 156 passengers and has a maximum range of up to 3,700 nautical miles. The latest variant is the A319neo, which comes with more efficient engines and other improvements.
Over 1,300 A319s are in service worldwide, and while most operators use them for short-haul flights, some use them for 2,500+ routes. Some airlines (like easyJet) are now phasing the A319 out of service. The data below is current as of June 2024 per Ciricum, an aviation analytics company.
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Myanmar Airways International (8M)
Myanmar Airways operates an A319 flight to Dubai four times a week
Route: |
Dubai (DXB) to Yangon (RGN) |
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Flights: |
34 |
Seats: |
4,760 |
Myanmar Airways International is one airline that operates A319s on a route greater than 2,500 miles. The flight runs from Yangon International Airport (the former capital of Myanmar or Burma) to Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates. These flights are operated on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (from Yangon to Dubai) and take 6 hours nonstop.
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Myanmar is currently gripped in a terrible civil war, with the ruling military junta fighting a confusing array of ethnic militias and other groups. Among the groups fighting the junta is the main opposition, which has now resorted to war as the only way to overthrow the junta and reestablish democracy. However, while the war is widespread throughout the country (with around a third or half of the country being out of the junta control), the fighting is still outside of the main cities like Yangon. This means the country’s main airports can operate for now.

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Avianca
Avianca operates four flights longer than 2,500 miles within South America using the A319
Route: |
Bogata (BOG) to Belo Horizonte (CNF), Rio de Janeiro (GIG), São Paulo (GRU), and Santiago (SCL) |
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Flights: |
108 |
Seats: |
15,552 |
Avianca is Colombia’s flag carrier, the world’s second-oldest extant airline (after KLM), and the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. Its name is an acronym for Aerovias del Continente Americano, or “Airways of the American Continent.” From its base at El Dorado International Airport in the capital city of Bogota, it operates some of the longest flights with the A319.
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Avianca operates flights using the A319 from Bogota to three major Brazilian cities: San Paulo, Rio de Janerio, and Belo Horizonte (Brazil’s sixth-largest city). It also operates a flight over 2,500 miles to the Chilean capital city of Santiago.

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Chongqing Airlines
Chongqing Airlines’ longest flight with an A319 is between cities in Xinjiang and Fujian
Route: |
Aksu (AKU) to Quanzhou (JJN) |
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Flights: |
34 |
Seats: |
4,250 |
Chongqing Airlines is a comparatively small airline in China, operating a fleet of narrowbody A319, A320, A320neo, and A321neo aircraft. Most of its destinations are domestic destinations within China, but it does have some international flights to Singapore, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Thailand (including destinations popular for Chinese tourists).
Chongqing Airlines operates one route longer than 2,500 miles with an Airbus A319 from Quanzhou to Aksu. Quanzhou is a city in the coastal province of Fujian across the strait from Taiwan, and the Quanzhou Airport is a dual-use military and commercial airport. Aksu is one of the cities in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in far-western China (Xinjiang is where the Uyghur people live).

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Ural Airlines
Ural Airlines operates two flights more than 2,500 miles from the western Siberian city of Yekaterinburg to China
Route: |
Yekaterinburg (SVX) to Harbin (HRB) and Beijing (PKX) |
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Flights: |
42 |
Seats: |
5,880 |
Ural Airlines is a Russian airline operating a fleet of narrowbody A319, A320, A320neo, A321, and A321neo aircraft. Like other Russian airlines, Ural Airlines’ destinations radically changed following the Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions and flight restrictions in solidarity with Ukraine. It now mostly flies domestic routes and to countries more friendly with Russia.
Ural Airlines operates two flights using A319s out of Koltsovo International Airport (its main hub at the city of Yekaterinburg in the center of Russia). One flight goes to Harbin city in northern China, not far from the border with Russia, while the other flight goes to China’s Beijing Daxing International Airport.

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United Airlines
United Airlines operated a (seemingly one-off) flight from Newark to Sacramento and back
Route: |
(EWR) to (SMF) |
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Flights: |
2 |
Seats: |
252 |
United Airlines also operated a flight from New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport to Sacramento International Airport in California. This seems to have been a one-off round trip made by United Airlines on June 29th, 2024. Nevertheless, that is enough for it to get into the list of A319 routes longer than 2,500 miles.
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United Airlines is one of the major airlines in the United States and is headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago. It operates flights to all six inhabited continents and is among the world’s oldest carriers. Founded in the late 1920s from various carriers stretching further, it operates a fleet of almost a thousand aircraft today (the third-largest in the world), including around 80 A319s.