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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lufthansa operates a mainline fleet 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.
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.
Airbus adds the SuperFan as an engine offering for its proposed new A340 airplane. [8] 15 January 1987 Airbus announces its first sale of the A340: a purchase from Lufthansa of 15 jets with options for 15 more, using the SuperFan engine. [9] 23 January 1987 Boeing offers the SuperFan as an alternative engine option for its proposed new 7J7 ...
The Trent 500 entered service on the A340-600 with Virgin Atlantic in July 2002 and on the ultra-long range A340-500 with Emirates in December 2003. Air Canada had been expected to be the launch customer for the A340-500 in May 2003, but just before this on 1 April 2003 the airline filed for bankruptcy protection which resulted in delivery of ...