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The airline replaced its McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliners with the Airbus A330. Its first Airbus A330-300, used initially for European flights, arrived on August 6, 2003. Northwest also flew the longer ranged and slightly shorter A330-200 on some trans-Pacific flights, within the Orient, and on some trans-Atlantic routes.
Passengers aboard Airbus A330 aircraft also had an Audio-Video-On-Demand system located in the seatback in front of them, and passengers seated in rows 10–23 (A330-200) or rows 10–28 (A330-300) had a universal power-port located below their seat.
Line drawings of the A330-200 and A330-300, the two most common types in service of Airbus A330 range. The Airbus A330 is a wide-body , dual-isle, twin-engine jet airliner made by Airbus . Versions of the A330 have a range of 7,400 to 13,430 kilometres (4,000 to 7,250 nautical miles ), and can accommodate up to 335 passengers in a two-class ...
The Airbus A330-900 maintains the A330-300's fuselage dimensions with 10 more seats thanks to cabin optimisation. [157] With modern Trent 7000 engines and redesigned winglets , it should burn 14% less fuel per seat than the A330-300 over a distance of 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi). [ 160 ]
The highly anticipated new first class seats for Swiss risk making the airline’s A330 aircraft nose-heavy. Now it’s scrambling to fix the problem.
[2] [3] The following day, Airbus announced that it planned to formally launch the A330/A340 programme by mid-April 1987, and was on track to deliver the first A340 by May 1992 and the A330 the following year. On 31 March, Northwest Airlines followed Air Inter and Thai by signing a letter of intent for 20 A340s and 10 A330s. [3]
Airbus A310-300: 23 1996 Boeing 727-100: 8 1972 1977 Boeing 727-200: Former Northeast Airlines fleet. [57] Boeing 727-200: 183 2003 Boeing 737-800 Boeing 757-200 McDonnell Douglas MD-90: One crashed as Flight 1141. Boeing 737-200: 75 1983 2006 Boeing 737-800 McDonnell Douglas MD-88 McDonnell Douglas MD-90: One damaged as Flight 1581. Boeing 737 ...
Despite the persistent rise in living costs due to inflation over the past two years, certain goods and services have become more affordable, offering a reprieve for consumers. While inflation has...