Avianca A319 near Houston on Jun 9th 2025, loss of cabin pressure An Avianca Airbus A319-100, registration N422AV performing ...

T he Airbus A340 entered service in March 1993 with both Air France and Lufthansa less than a year before the Airbus A330 would make its commercial debut. With the A340, Airbus wa ...

Eight Abreast Seating Similar to the A300, the Airbus A340 kept the eight abreast economy seating section, with the early A340s having a similar airframe to that of the A330-200 or A330-300.

Airbus offered the original A330 in two major variants; the A330-200 and the A330-300 series. There were several sub-variants within these that had more specific model numbers.

The Egyptian government operates an Airbus A340-200 as a VIP transport. The first presidential airplane was given as a gift from Saudi Arabia to Egypt.

Airbus' A340 family is a little less varied and includes a 200, 300, 500, and 600 series. While the smaller of the two families are closer in specs, there's more of a discrepancy between the ...

Three years after the first commercial flight of the A340-200, Airbus launched the next series of the type: the A340-400, 500, and -600 variants. These were essentially stretches of the earlier ...

Considering all four engines have at least 275 metric tons (303.1 US tons) to carry aboard a fully loaded A340-200 and even more for the stretched A340-300, is it any surprise that early examples ...

Airbus is a proudly European and multinational enterprise, and the company managed to encapsulate this by launching its two original A340 variants in 1993. Indeed, while Air France was the first ...

DALLAS - Venezuelan carrier Conviasa (V0) is scrapping its only Airbus A340-200 aircraft, ending the last passenger service for the type in the world. The national carrier currently operates 15 ...

A Hi Fly Malta Airbus A340-500. Getty Images The A340-500 was the world's longest-range passenger plane when it was first introduced in 2002. The aircraft has a maximum range of 9,000 nautical miles.