Sydney Airport completes its $169m apron expansion project to increase international overlay capacity and support long-term ...

“I am in favor of the stretch,” Schultz makes clear on the sidelines of the Paris Air Show. To meet market demand, the ...

T he Airbus A340 entered service in March 1993 with both Air France and Lufthansa less than a year before the Airbus A330 ...

Nothing pleases me more than being greeted with Ayubowan by the smiling face of a beauty clad in a bright blue saree, every ...

T he Boeing 747-8 is currently the world's longest commercial jet in history with a fuselage measuring 250 ft 2 in (76.25 m), ...

The larger -500 and -600 variants followed in the early ... with the final two -500s delivered in 2012. The A340’s successor, the A350, now dominates long-haul routes. Despite its commercial decline, ...

The larger A340-500 and A340-600 came later ... as you’ll see from the rest of this widebody list. Of the longer A340-300, five remain with Swiss leisure airline Edelweiss Air, one each with Hi Fly ...

The 23-foot-longer wings help generate more lift and improve efficiency by 10% compared to predecessors and competing aircraft. When creating the 777X design, Boeing wanted to ensure the bigger ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...