The Airbus A340 is no exception. While it has low lease or acquisition costs, its fuel burn and maintenance requirements are ...

Over 377 A340s were developed throughout the type's lifespan, and they were a reliable choice for transoceanic operations.

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

Airbus, in its quest to become the leading manufacturer of commercial aircraft, rolled out two planes: a twinjet dubbed the A330 and the A340 long-range quadjet. Boeing wasn't gonna be left out of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 market values of an ...