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British United Airways flew the BAC One-Eleven's first revenue service from Gatwick to Genoa on 9 April 1965, putting the British short-haul jet into airline use eight months before the Douglas DC-9.

Delta Air Lines flew the first DC-9 passenger service on 29 November 1965 with Ship 105 from Atlanta to Memphis and Kansas City; daily scheduled DC-9 service began on 8 December 1965.

American Airlines flew the first DC-10 passenger flight, a Los Angeles-Chicago round trip with N103AA, on 5 August 1971; United followed on 16 August with San Francisco-Los Angeles.

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, N301EA, entered commercial service with launch customer Eastern Air Lines on 26 April 1972 on the Miami to New York route, making it the third wide-body airliner in commercial operation after the 747 and DC-10.

On 23 May 1974 Air France began scheduled A300 operations, premiering the first twin-engine wide-body airliner on its Paris to London Heathrow trunk route with two round trips.

Swissair, launch customer of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80, put its first MD-81 into service on 10 October 1980, a month after taking delivery of the first aircraft on 13 September 1980.

Swiss regional airline Crossair put the Saab-Fairchild SF340 into scheduled service on 15 June 1984 between Basel and Paris, nine days after taking delivery of the first aircraft.

American Airlines introduced the extended-range Boeing 767-300ER into service on 3 March 1988, two weeks after taking the first delivery (N351AA) on 19 February, launching what became the best-selling 767 version.

Air France received the first Airbus A320 on 28 March 1988, a 153-seat jet that began scheduled flying the next month.

Finnair received the first ATR 72 on 27 October 1989, a month after French certification, and became the first airline to operate the 66-seat stretch.

Finnair, launch customer of the MD-11, put the trijet into service on 20 December 1990 on the Helsinki-Tenerife route, after taking the first delivery on 7 December 1990.

Air Inter put the first Airbus A330-300 into commercial service on 17 January 1994 on Paris Orly-Marseille. The French domestic carrier flew four A330s with 412 single-class seats until 1996.

The Boeing 777 entered commercial service on 7 June 1995 when United Airlines flew its first Pratt & Whitney-powered 777-200 between London Heathrow and Washington.

British Airways introduced the extended-range Boeing 777-200ER into airline service on 9 February 1997, three days after taking the first delivery, making it the launch operator of the 777's long-haul B-market variant.

SAS put the first of its new Dash 8 Q400 turboprops into service between Copenhagen and Aarhus in early February 2000, the first airline in the world to fly the type commercially.

Virgin Atlantic's A340-600, the longest airliner in the world at 75.3 m, flew its first commercial service from Heathrow to New York JFK on 1 August 2002. It was the first of ten, a US$1.9 billion order.

On 17 March 2004 LOT Polish Airlines flew SP-LDA from Warsaw to Vienna, the first commercial flight of any Embraer E-Jet, after delivery on 8 March and certification delays.

Air Canada began flying the first Embraer E175, C-FEIQ, on 19 July 2005, according to Embraer, making the Canadian airline the launch operator of the stretched 76-to-78-seat E-Jet that became the dominant US regional jet.

On 25 October 2007 Singapore Airlines flight SQ380 carried 455 passengers from Singapore to Sydney, the first passenger flight of the A380. Most seats had been sold on eBay, with proceeds going to charity.

Qatar Airways started scheduled A350 flying on 15 January 2015 with Doha-Frankfurt, becoming the first airline to put the A350 XWB into commercial service and challenging Lufthansa at its home airport.

Chengdu Airlines flew the first scheduled ARJ21-700 passenger service from Chengdu to Shanghai Hongqiao on 28 June 2016, about 70 passengers on board, 7.5 years after the first flight.

SWISS began the first commercial CSeries service on 15 July 2016, flight LX638 from Zurich to Paris Charles de Gaulle with a CS100.

China Eastern flight MU9191 flew the C919's first commercial service from Shanghai Hongqiao to Beijing Capital on 28 May 2023, departing 10:32 with about 130 passengers.