Once a staple of long-haul travel and a symbol of Airbus’ ambition to rival Boeing’s widebodies, the four-engine Airbus A340 ...

Lufthansa plans to retire its fleet of Airbus A340-600s at the start of 2026 as the airline introduces more efficient ...

Will we ever see another quadjet airliner? On the horizon, we have the Boeing 777X set to debut later this decade. This is an ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

Enormous engines like the GE90 had to be developed to power the 777, primarily because it has two turbofans rather than four.

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 ...

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 ...