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

The A340-400 concept was the precursor to the larger A340 models, with a longer fuselage. As Airbus further refined its improved A340s, the A340-400 became a variant that was similar in size to ...

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

“Clearly, shutting down one engine on a twinjet is a bigger deal than shutting ... t without problems. “On a long flight from Hong Kong to London on the A340-300, they would often leave ...

While the smaller of the two families are closer in specs, there's more of a discrepancy between the larger models. For example, the A340-600 is 247 feet long compared to A330-900's 208 feet.

The story of the A340 is one rooted in the larger history of Airbus itself ... it entered service with Lufthansa in March 1993. On long-haul flights, early A340s flew considerably farther away ...

on a very large airplane that typically can fit 300 airplane seats. It was a fairly quiet cabin.” Passengers liked the plane, but it wasn’t without problems. “On a long flight from Hong Kong to London ...