Airbus followed Boeing's decision several years later, making some wonder if the European aircraft manufacturer copied its ...

“The A340 is, almost inarguably, the prettiest of all the Airbus jets, and I’m sad to see fewer and fewer of them around,” says Patrick Smith, an airline pilot flying Boeing aircraft and the ...

I f you’ve ever flown long-haul in comfort and quiet aboard an Airbus A350, you’ve probably wondered: what does it actually ...

For better or worse, the A340 is like a Geo Metro in the ... shortened by roughly 6.95 m (22.8 ft). In turn, Airbus' current bread and butter aircraft, the narrow-body, twin-jet A320 family ...

While McDonnell Douglas president of commercial aircraft division James Worsham ... maximum capacity of 440 in an all-economy setup. Airbus' A340 family is a little less varied and includes ...

However, Lufthansa has gone for a rather different approach with a retired Airbus A340-600. The German airline is giving the aircraft, identified by the registration code D-AIHO – a fresh start ...

An Airbus A340 aircraft just landed on Antarctica for the first time ever — see the history of aviation on the 7th continent "Its four engines redundancy and very long range make it the ideal ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus and its engine makers have acted to try to shore up the value of second-hand A340 aircraft as the European planemaker tries to reduce its financial exposure to depressed ...

A Lufthansa Airbus A340 was damaged after a fire broke out ... The A340 was painted in a special Star Alliance livery. “The aircraft is heavily damaged,” Lufthansa said in a statement to ...

Germany's Air Force is selling its former VIP Airbus A340-300 plane in mid-Janaury 2024 ... Germany since 2011 after serving as a passenger aircraft for Lufthansa. The state-owned trust company ...