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

US airports will have flights on the Airbus A340, A380, or the passenger Boeing 747. Of these, only five—Boston, Los Angeles, ...

On April 24th, Lufthansa Group’s ... completed its final C-Check on the A340-600, bidding the aircraft farewell. We’ve known for some time now that this Airbus quadjet is being taken out ...

An Iberia Airbus A340-600, registration EC-JOH performing flight IB-6463 from ... The airplane was cleared to perform approach procedure 4 (see approach chart below). 2 minutes prior to landing the ...

While the company has also ordered modern planes from Boeing, Lufthansa has suffered holdups on those models, with more than 10 of its completed 787 Dreamliners still awaiting delivery because of seat ...

The Fokker 100 is a 109-seat ... Lufthansa and Air France. The larger A340-500 and A340-600 came later, being jointly launched in December 1997. Markus Mainka / Shutterstock From 1991 to 2012, 377 of ...

Yesterday, Lufthansa brought its ... generation counterparts. With 509 seats, the airline’s A380 has around 80 percent more capacity than its Airbus A340-600, which currently flies on the ...

With later models, the balance shifts more in A340's favor, with the A340-600 shadowing the ... As of 2022, Lufthansa was slowly phasing out the Airbus in favor of Boeing's 787.

DALLAS — The first manned heavier-than-air aircraft, the Wright Flyer was the simplest form of aircraft, with basic controls and no proper seats ... of the A340-500/600, which is 63.45 m/208.17 ft.

However, the busiest Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 route in terms of available seat kilometers (ASK) is between FRA and Hong Kong. The Airbus A340, including the largest version of the quad-engine jet, ...

From those, the -400 variant was discarded afterward, leaving a gap in the naming of the A340 family, while the -500 and -600 versions went on into production. Lufthansa and Air France were the launch ...

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 ... class - 100 seats only, on a very large ...