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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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