On 9 October, Airbus handed over A320-family MSN 10,000 to customer MEA -Middle East Airlines. The aircraft involved is an A321-271NX and registered as T7-MEC. It flew to Beirut on delivery on the same day, flying with the appropriate flightnumber MEA321.

The aircraft is the third A321neo in MEA's fleet, which now consists of 18 aircraft, all from Airbus. There are six more A321neos scheduled to be delivered to the airline in the coming months.

An interesting fact is that MEA also took delivery of MSN 5,000 in 2012, which is an A320. It took Airbus 23 years to reach 5,000 A320-family aircraft in 2012, but the next 5,000 only eight years.