SPECIAL LIVERY - VUELING / Airbus a320-214(WL) /EC-LVU - 'XV France-French Rugby Federation livery (Qui a dit que le COQ ne savait pas VOLER)

Paul Bannwarth

SPECIAL LIVERY - VUELING / A320-200 / EC-LUO - Second version of Athletic Club de Bilbao

Flyingphotos - Lisboa
 

FLEET - Vueling Plans Boeing737 Max 8-200 Dec 2026 Launch

Vueling plans to begin operations with the Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 during the 2026/27 winter season.

Barcelona:

Alicante, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, Rome Fiumicino, Seville
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SPECIAL COLOURS - VUELING / A320-200 / EC-MJB - "Tour de France"

Photo: Alain Charpentier
 

FLEET / ORDER - IAG increases B737MAX-order

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The International Airline Group has announced it has decided to convert options it held on the Boeing B737MAX into firm orders. In total, the deal is for ten additional MAXs, with no exact type specified. 

The new aircraft are scheduled to be delivered in 2028 and 2029.

With this latest increase, IAG now was firm orders for 60 B737MAXs, 25 we know will be B737-8200s and 25 B737-10s. 

The number of remaining options is 40.

All new MAXs are assigned to Vueling, which currently operates an all-Airbus fleet of six A319s, 93 A320s, seventeen A320neos, eighteen A321s, and four A321neos. 

Delivery of the first MAX is expected to take place in the final quarter of this year.

SPECIAL COLOURS - VUELING / A320-200 / EC-MJB - "Tour de France 2026"

Photo: Oaktree Aviation
 

SPECIAL COLOURS - Vueling / A320-214 / EC-KLB - New Cantabria Infinita special livery

Photo: Pablo Gonzalez de Leon

SPECIAL COLOURS - VUELING / A320-232(WL) / EC-LVS - (Commandante TONI RUBIO, Volare Los SEMPRE JUNTOS-BORN THIS WAY-FLY THIS WAY)

Paul Bannwarth
 

ROUTES - VUELING NW25 BARCELONA FREQUENCY CHANGES – 03AUG25

Vueling in recent weeks filed changes to its Northern winter 2025/26 season, which sees selected frequency changes to its Barcelona base. Between 26OCT25 and 28MAR26, the airline schedules 26375 flights (one-way departure from Barcelona) as of 03AUG25, compared to 27154 flights as of 15JUN25. This results in 2.9% flight reductions.

When comparing to the period of 01NOV – 15MAR, in 2024/25 Vueling operated 22741 flights (one-way departure from Barcelona), while planned 2025/26 currently lists 23041 flights, approximately 1.3% flight increase.

Frequency changes for the entire season (26OCT25 – 28MAR26) on selected routes include the following, based on comparison 15JUN25 vs 03AUG25.

Barcelona – A Coruña Reduce from 352 to 348 flights
Barcelona – Alicante Reduce from 890 to 866 flights
Barcelona – Amsterdam Reduce from 968 to 878 flights
Barcelona – Asturias Reduce from 394 to 346 flights
Barcelona – Athens Reduce from 264 to 245 flights
Barcelona – Basel/Mulhouse Reduce from 110 to 102 flights
Barcelona – Berlin Reduce from 418 to 373 flights
Barcelona – Bilbao Reduce from 983 to 935 flights
Barcelona – Bologna Reduce from 220 to 202 flights
Barcelona – Bordeaux Reduce from 308 to 261 flights
Barcelona – Brussels Reduce from 572 to 540 flights
Barcelona – Catania Reduce from 110 to 106 flights
Barcelona – Copenhagen Reduce from 242 to 206 flights
Barcelona – Dublin Reduce from 154 to 134 flights
Barcelona – Dusseldorf Reduce from 264 to 246 flights
Barcelona – Florence Reduce from 462 to 440 flights
Barcelona – Geneva Reduce from 264 to 221 flights
Barcelona – Gran Canaria/Las Palmas Reduce from 719 to 677 flights
Barcelona – Granada Reduce from 627 to 615 flights
Barcelona – Hamburg Reduce from 264 to 234 flights
Barcelona – Ibiza Increase from 946 to 1035 flights
Barcelona – Istanbul Increase from 154 to 172 flights
Barcelona – Jerez de la Frontera Reduce from 132 to 126 flights
Barcelona – Lanzarote Reduce from 308 to 298 flights
Barcelona – London Gatwick Reduce from 1144 to 1049 flights
Barcelona – Lyon Reduce from 264 to 248 flights
Barcelona – Mahon Reduce from 924 to 777 flights
Barcelona – Malaga Reduce from 1000 to 913 flights
Barcelona – Malta Reduce from 88 to 85 flights
Barcelona – Manchester Increase from 154 to 198 flights
Barcelona – Nantes Reduce from 352 to 328 flights
Barcelona – Naples Reduce from 308 to 292 flights
Barcelona – Nice Reduce from 308 to 289 flights
Barcelona – Palermo Reduce from 132 to 102 flights
Barcelona – Palma de Mallorca Reduce from 1738 to 1540 flights
Barcelona – Paris Charles de Gaulle Reduce from 560 to 532 flights
Barcelona – Porto Reduce from 418 to 410 seats
Barcelona – Prague Reduce from 308 to 292 flights
Barcelona – Rome Fiumicino Reduce from 890 to 820 flights
Barcelona – Santiago de Compostela Reduce from 517 to 391 flights
Barcelona – Seville Reduce from 1078 to 1064 flights
Barcelona – Stockholm Arlanda Reduce from 66 to 62 flights
Barcelona – Stuttgart Reduce from 264 to 255 flights
Barcelona – Tangier Reduce from 154 to 137 flights
Barcelona – Tenerife Norte Reduce from 770 to 711 flights
Barcelona – Turin Increase from 88 to 110 flights
Barcelona – Vienna Reduce from 98 to 80 flights
Barcelona – Vigo Reduce from 220 to 215 flights
Barcelona – Zurich Reduce from 330 to 326 flights

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ROUTES - VUELING 4Q25 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 03AUG25

Vueling in the fourth quarter of 2025 schedules various network additions, with selected routes opened for reservations since last week.

Barcelona – Agadir eff 16NOV25 2 weekly A320
Barcelona – Ljubljana eff 16NOV25 2 weekly A320 (3 weekly 09DEC25 – 06JAN26)
Barcelona – Strasbourg eff 27NOV25 3 weekly A320
Barcelona – Tromsø eff 03DEC25 2 weekly A320 (Previously reported)
Paris Orly – Santiago de Compostela eff 26OCT25 4 weekly A320 (Replacing Paris Charles de Gaulle)
Santander – Alicante eff 28OCT25 2 weekly A320
Seville – Essaouira eff 04OCT25 1 weekly A320 (2 weekly from 28OCT25)

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ORDER - Spain's Vueling Airlines to switch to all-Boeing fleet

IAG International Airlines Group has allocated its entire firm order for fifty B737 MAX, comprising twenty-five B737-8-200s and twenty-five B737-10s, to Vueling Airlines (VY, Barcelona El Prat). The holding's chief executive officer, Luis Gallego, said during a quarterly earnings call that the long-term plan was to transition the Spanish LCC from its current all-Airbus fleet to B737 MAX aircraft.

The airline expects to add its first three B737 MAX in the fourth quarter of 2026, with the remainder scheduled for delivery between 2027 and 2029. On top of the firm order direct from Boeing, IAG has purchase options for another hundred B737 MAX.

Vueling's chief executive, Carolina Sandra Martinoli, said that detailed deployment plans will be revealed later, but the first B737 MAX will operate out of the carrier's main base at Barcelona El Prat.

The current firm order would not be sufficient to replace Vueling's entire A320 family fleet, as the Spanish airline operates 141 aircraft. Gallego clarified that if the airline performs as planned, the entire transition would stretch through the early 2030s.

"We have announced today that the fifty B737s that we have on firm orders, we are going to allocate to Vueling. The intention, for sure, is that at the end of the process we replace the whole fleet of Vueling with Boeing product, but that is going to be dependent on the performance of Vueling. If Vueling complies with the plan that we have, then the intention is to replace the fleet. This is going to be a long period because we are talking about a lot of aircraft. So we are talking about maybe six years for the process," he explained.

The company anticipates incurring additional expenses during the transition, as it will temporarily operate a mixed fleet. However, Martinoli emphasised that the airline has a plan to contain the added costs.

ch-aviation reached out to Vueling and IAG for comment on the fleet plans.

According to ch-aviation data, Vueling currently operates six A319-100s, ninety-one A320-200s, twenty-two A320-200Ns, eighteen A321-200s, and four A321-200NX. The average age of Vueling's aircraft is 10.1 years.

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SPECIAL LIVERY - VUELING / A320-200 / EC-LUO - " Athletic de Bilbao"

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SPECIAL SCHEME - Vueling presents new Airbus A320 with Barça feminine livery

A vueling, has unveiled a new Barcelona feminine livery as part of its partnership with the Catalan football club.
The new livery is featured on Vueling's Airbus A320, registration EC-LZN. Its creative design features Barcelona's colors and the slogan “Dream, Play, Fly,” reflecting the spirit of hard work that has taken the team to greater heights.

Photo: Vueling

It also features images of Aitana Bonmatí, the current female Ballon d'Or holder, as well as Alexia Putellas, Caroline Graham-Hansen, Salma Paralluelo, Maria León, and Patri Guijarro, all representin

the team. Many soccer teams have been featured on airline liveries, but the practice is more prevalent with the male squads.

 

AIRPORT - Madrid Barajas - 05/ 2024

José Ramon Valero
 

SPECIAL SCHEME -Vueling presents plane with the Barcelona women's football team

The A320ceo registration EC-MER was presented at an event held in the hangar of Barcelona-El Prat International Airport, in Catalonia, and was attended by the majority of women who appear on one side of the design: Aitana Bonmatí, Fridolina Rolfö, Patri Guijarro and Ingrid Engen.

Photos: BARCELONA
 

SPECIAL LIVERY - Vueling / A321-271NX / EC-NYD - Official supplier of France Rugby

Photo: Jonathan Mifsud
 

VUELING / A320NEO / EC-NCD - Eurovision

 Rui Silva - LPPT

VUELING / A320-200 / EC-NDC - Eurovision

 Jose Ramon Valero - MAD

VUELING / A320NEO / EC-NIX

 Rui Silva - LPTT

All LEVEL Europe (Anisec) fleet has been taken over by Vueling, except one A321 without sharkkets The 2 A320 are now in service, and the 3X A321WL are stored at Madrid, all wearing this hibrid livery

 José Ramon Valero