We’re starting 2020 at It’s About Airplanes with over 600 individual airplanes already featured at the site. So, the battle for the top 10 most viewed in 2019 was obviously quite tight.
Boeing 747’s and Airbus A380’s account for four of the ten positions. Lufthansa takes the top two spots while Emirates also appears twice. But, with a high percentage of the featured aircraft coming from Canada based airlines like Air Canada and WestJet, there is little presence in the top 10 from those folks.
2019 Top 10 Most Viewed Airplanes
The most viewed airplane, for the second year running, is D-ABVU. The Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 has been in the skies for the German airline since 1998. It’s truly a living legend and it will be a shame when these B744 aircraft have all been retired…
By clicking on the registration number, you can find more photos and info for each of the these top 10 airliners.
| Position | Reg. # | Airline | Model |
| 1 | D-ABVU | Lufthansa | Boeing 747-400 |
| 2 | D-AIXH | Lufthansa | Airbus A350-900 |
| 3 | PH-BFY | KLM Asia | Boeing 747-400M Combi |
| 4 | C-FNNH | Air Canada | Boeing 777-200LR |
| 5 | G-ZZZB | British Airways | Boeing 777-200 |
| 6 | A6-EUK | Emirates | Airbus A380-800 |
| 7 | N303FE | Fedex | McDonnell Douglas DC-10 |
| 8 | C-FNAX | WestJet | Boeing 737 MAX 8 |
| 9 | A6-EEV | Emirates | Airbus A380-800 |
| 10 | B-KQY | Cathay Pacific | Boeing 777-300ER |
Top 10 Photo Gallery
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2019 In Review And What 2020 Brings
2019 was just the second full year of activity at It’s About Airplanes. We started mid-year 2017. 2018 saw quite massive growth and the numbers for 2019 were actually down. There were fewer views and there were also fewer aircraft featured. That’s not to say there was a complete collapse, just that the numbers were down.
Is this a trend that will continue moving into 2020? Absolutely not. We’re looking to ramp things up. As mentioned above, we’ve featured over 600 aircraft so far at the site. I would like to see that number top 1,000 before the end of the year.
That’s some hefty expected growth. This is not a company staffed with writers, photographers, photo editors and web designers. This is a one man show. Adding 400 aircraft means more than one per day. It means a lot of day trips to Toronto Pearson International Airport and, hopefully, other airports.
The biggest problem is not the volume of aircraft to photograph. The biggest problem is that, more and more, those we photograph have already been featured. Some days, only half we photograph are new to our inventory.
In saying that, the commercial aviation business is continually evolving. The Airbus A220 should start showing up in 2020. The Boeing 737 MAX shit storm might resolve itself sometime this year. New airlines appear while some go away.
Regardless, there will be more coming in 2020! Here’s to a great year of plane spotting!