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A Boeing 787 Dreamliner of United Airlines landing at Beijing Capital International Airport on 28 December 2018.. A wide-body aircraft, also known as a twin-aisle aircraft and in the largest cases as a jumbo jet, is an airliner with a fuselage wide enough to accommodate two passenger aisles with seven or more seats abreast. [1]
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%.
Asymmetrical layouts also exist, examples including the Embraer Regional Jet which has 1+2 seating while the Douglas DC-9, Sukhoi Superjet 100 and Airbus A220 aircraft typically feature 2+3 seating. On wide body-aircraft the center block of seats between the aisles can have as many as 5 seats on planes like the layout on most McDonnell Douglas ...
An aircraft seat map or seating chart is a diagram of the seat layout inside a passenger airliner. They are often published by airlines for informational purposes and are of use to passengers for selection of their seat at booking or check-in.
2 2017 2018 155 (December 2024) [citation needed] 153 (December 2024) [citation needed] Airbus A350 XWB: Multinational 2 2013 2014 648 (December 2024) [citation needed] 643 (December 2024) Antonov An-148/An-158: Ukraine 2 2004 2009 37 8 Boeing 737: United States 2 1967 1968 11,513 (July 2023) [2] 8,024 (December 2024) Boeing 767: United States ...
The A380 double-deck cross-section. A double-deck aircraft has two decks for passengers; the second deck may be only a partial deck, and may be above or below the main deck. . Most commercial aircraft have one passenger deck and one cargo deck for luggage and ULD containers, but a few have two decks for passengers, typically above or below a third deck for car
The 757 has a 2,000 sq ft (185 m 2) supercritical wing for reduced aerodynamic drag and a conventional tail. It keeps the 707 fuselage width and six–abreast seating and its two-crew glass cockpit has a common type rating with the concurrently designed 767 (a wide-body aircraft).
It first flew on March 14, 1966, was certified on September 2, 1966, and entered service with United Airlines in February 1967. The long-range DC-8-62 followed in April 1967, stretched by 7 ft (2.1 m), could seat up to 189 passengers over 5,200 nautical miles [nmi] (9,600 km; 6,000 mi) with a larger wing for a MTOW up to 350,000 lb (159 t). The ...