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

Lufthansa plans to retire its fleet of Airbus A340-600s at the start of 2026 as the airline introduces more efficient ...

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On April 24th, Lufthansa Group’s ... completed its final C-Check on the A340-600, bidding the aircraft farewell. We’ve known for some time now that this Airbus quadjet is being taken out ...

Airbus A340-600 and Airbus A340-300 aircraft types. Compared to their predecessors, the new additions to the Lufthansa Group fleet consume up to 35 percent less fuel consumption and emit ...

A Lufthansa Airbus A340-600, registration D-AIHF performing flight LH-418 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Washington Dulles,DC (USA), was enroute at FL340 over Netherlands near Amsterdam when the ...

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Lufthansa Group said it would streamline its long-haul fleet by decommissioning Airbus A340-300, A340-600, A330-200 and Boeing 747-400 sub-fleets by 2028 as part of a turnaround plan for its main ...

For example, the A340-600 is 247 feet long compared ... had 27 in its employ. As of 2022, Lufthansa was slowly phasing out the Airbus in favor of Boeing's 787. Airbus never had a corner market ...

When Airbus developed the A350, it used a clean-sheet design rather than innovating its previous widebodies, like the four-engine Airbus A340 ... with nearly 600 on order, according to Airbus.

From those, the -400 variant was discarded afterward, leaving a gap in the naming of the A340 family, while the -500 and -600 versions went on into production. Lufthansa and Air France were the launch ...