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It provides similar passenger capacity to a 747 but with 25 percent more cargo volume and with lower trip and seat costs. The first flight of the A340-600 was made on 23 April 2001. [127] Virgin Atlantic began commercial services in August 2002. [128] [129] The variant's main competitor is the 777-300ER. The A340-600 was replaced by the A350-1000.
Lufthansa operates a mainline fleet consisting of Airbus narrow and widebody and Boeing widebody aircraft. [1][2] The mainline fleet is composed of seven different aircraft families: the Airbus A320 and A320neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Airbus A350, Airbus A380, Boeing 747 and Boeing 787. This list excludes Lufthansa brand subsidiaries ...
The A330 and A340 fuselage is based on that of the Airbus A300-600, with many common parts, and has the same external and cabin width: 5.64 m (19 ft) and 5.26 m (17 ft). [103] [104] Typical seating arrangements are 2–2–2 six-abreast in business class and 2–4–2 eight-abreast in economy class. [105]
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 worrying sign of the A340’s imminent demise is that there are currently no airlines operating the A340-500 variant, which Airbus introduced in 2003 as the world’s longest-range commercial ...
3. 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.
On 16 November 2003, Emirates ordered 41 Airbus aircraft, comprising two A340-500s, 18 A340-600s and 21 A380-800s. On 20 November 2005, Emirates announced firm orders for 42 Boeing 777 aircraft, in a deal worth Dhs 35.7 billion (US$9.7 billion) at list prices. This was the largest-ever order for the Boeing 777 family of aircraft and consisted ...
Current fleet. Cathay Pacific operates narrow-body and wide-body, twin-engine passenger aircraft composed of Airbus A321neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A350 and Boeing 777 aircraft [2] and a Boeing 747 cargo fleet. [4] The airline also has more Airbus A320neo, Airbus A321neo, Airbus A330neo, Airbus A350 and Boeing 777X aircraft on order.