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Airbus launched the shortened, longer-range A310 (originally the A300B10) into production on 7 July 1978 on the strength of orders from Swissair and Lufthansa.

The first DC-9 Super 80, later called the MD-80, flew for the first time on 18 October 1979 from Long Beach; the stretched, higher-bypass JT8D-200 twinjet was certified on 25 August 1980.

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.

The first Airbus A310, F-WZLH, flew for the first time from Toulouse on 3 April 1982, painted in Swissair colours on one side and Lufthansa on the other.

The Airbus A310-203 and A310-221 received their initial type certificates on 11 March 1983, a month before the first airline services with Swissair and Lufthansa.