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 ...

During takeoff, an Airbus A340 encounters what appears to be a sudden windshear event, testing both aircraft systems and pilot response. Watch this tense moment unfold and see how training and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only 218 A340-300s were built, but Duke believes this provides adequate feedstock for a low-cost conversion scheme, the economic model for which does not depend on take-up from large integrators ...

The situation was uncovered after an incident involving an Airbus A340-600 which flew into turbulence over the Swiss Alps on 6 November last year, while heading north on service SA260 to Frankfurt.

According to the user who filmed the incident, Flight UT5187, a UTair Boeing 767-300 (VQ-BSX) from Moscow was on final for runway 02 when Aerolíneas Argentinas Airbus A340-300 (LV-FPV ...