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The A340 was introduced 30 years ago with Lufthansa and Air France, but only 380 have been produced since, the last in 2012. By comparison, Airbus has already made 565 of its successor, the A350 ...
Lufthansa: 8 30 24 27 Launch customer of the A340 alongside Air France [4] A340-300 to be replaced by Boeing 787-9 [5] Five A340-600 returned from long-term storage, later to be replaced by Boeing 777X: Mahan Air: 1 7 7 11 Maleth-Aero: 4 1 Mandarin Airlines: 1 Olympic Airlines: 4 Ceased operations in 2009 Philippine Airlines: 4 13 Plus Ultra ...
In January 2021, Lufthansa CEO Spohr announced that the entire currently stored Airbus A340-600 fleet will be retired with immediate effect and not return to service anymore. [77] This decision was later overturned, with several A340-600 aircraft returning to service in 2021 after several months in storage.
The A340-600 has five doors per side, as seen here on a since-retired Iberia aircraft. Designed to replace early-generation Boeing 747-200/300 airliners, the A340-600 can carry 379 passengers in a three-class cabin layout for 13,900 km (7,500 nmi; 8,600 mi). It provides a passenger capacity similar to a 747 but with 25 per cent more cargo ...
Lufthansa operates a mainline fleet of 296 aircraft, consisting of Airbus narrow and wide-body and Boeing wide-body aircraft. [1] [2] The mainline fleet is composed of seven different aircraft families: the Airbus A320 and A320neo families, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Airbus A350, Airbus A380, Boeing 747 and Boeing 787.
The current Konrad Adenauer (registration number 10+01) is a former Lufthansa Technik Airbus A350-900 re-configured into a VIP configuration with political-parliamentary operations, and has separate spaces to allow for private meetings, roundtables and other activities. The rest of the space in the aircraft has been given over to the ...
They used two Airbus A340-313X VIP aircraft until 2023, previously of Germany's Lufthansa, redesigned by Lufthansa Technik in a VIP configuration, including sleeping rooms and an anti-missile system. [91] The aircraft are named after Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of (West) Germany, and Theodor Heuss, its first President.
The Rolls-Royce Trent 500 is a high-bypass turbofan produced by Rolls-Royce to power the larger A340-500/600 variants. It was selected in June 1997, [1] first ran in May 1999, [2] first flew in June 2000, and achieved certification on 15 December 2000. [3]