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 already made 565 of its successor ...

I f you ever take a long-haul flight, you'll almost always find yourself on an Airbus A330, Airbus A350, Boeing 777, or Boeing 787. Occasionally, you might also end up on a Boeing ...

Its two-engined sibling, the A330, also sold over 1,800 copies across two generations. Yet, the A340 is disappearing from the skies. The 1990s saw a showdownin the twin-aisle airliner world.

If all that's true, think of the Airbus A340 as the complete opposite. Despite sporting four engines instead of two, the A340 is notorious worldwide for being an absolute pig. For better or worse ...

The largest option is the quad-engine Airbus A340, which touched down on the ice for the first time in November 2021. Rates start at $14,500 per person for a one-day excursion and go up to $ ...

Credit: Hi Fly/Marc Bow The mighty Airbus A340 widebody four-engine jet has been flying around the world since it entered service in the early 1990s, but its destinations have never included the ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus and its engine makers have acted to try to shore up the value of second-hand A340 aircraft as the European planemaker tries to reduce its financial exposure to depressed ...

Philippine Airlines (PAL) has become the latest airline to phase out A340s, operating its last A340-300 scheduled flight at the end of Sep-2018 without fanfare. PAL accelerated the retirement of its ...

For the first time in history, an Airbus A340 plane has landed on Antarctica. Hi Fly, a boutique aviation company, was behind the flight. The company specializes in wet leases, which means they ...

The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just ...

An Edelweiss Air Airbus A340 experienced a possible windshear incident on take-off from Zurich airport, which nearly sent it back onto the runway. A 20-year-old A340-300E, the aircraft (HB-JMF ...