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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 ...
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 Líneas Aéreas: 4 2 2 ...
Airbus A340-500: 3 [23] 2005 2012 Airbus A350-900: All aircraft are listed for sale. [23] 1 HS-TLC was sold to Royal Thai Air Force. [25] Airbus A340-600: 6 [23] 2005 2015 Disposed to Hua An Aviation Parts Co. Ltd. Airbus A380-800: 6 2012 2020 Early retirement due to COVID-19 pandemic. [26] All six aircraft are to be sold off. [citation needed ...
“My favorite A340 variant is the -600, with the stretched fuselage and the huge Rolls-Royce engines. What a beauty. I once took an extra-early departure out of Bangkok just for the opportunity ...
Airbus A340-300: 5 1996 2012 Airbus A340-600: 5 2003 2015 Boeing 737-200: 3 2001 2005 Boeing 737-300: 26 1998 2014 Boeing 767-300ER: 3 2003 2011 Acquired from China Yunnan Airlines. Bombardier CRJ-200ER: 5 2004 2016 Acquired from China Yunnan Airlines. All aircraft remained in the Yunnan landscape special livery previously painted by China ...
The A330 and A340 successor A350 XWB is also offered as the ACJ350 corporate jet by Airbus Corporate Jets, offering a 10,800 nmi (20,000 km) range for 25 passengers for the -900 derivative and 270 square metres (2,900 sq ft) of cabin space. [29] This range is the distance between two antipodes, allowing connection with any suitable airport.
A European Cargo A340-600, at Bournemouth Airport in October 2023. European Cargo operates a fleet of Airbus A340 airliners in both cargo and passenger configurations. Parent company European Aviation has an additional 8 such aircraft, as well as 2 Boeing 737-300 s.
A340-600. The wide-body programme led to the introduction of the four-engine A340 in 1991 and the twinjet A330 in 1992. At that time, Airbus wanted to offer four-engined jet aircraft to allow for longer transatlantic and transpacific flights. However, during the aircraft's development, new rules extended twinjet operations to 120 minutes in ...