Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
F-WUAB when being constructed in 1972. The aircraft was assembled at Airbus's Aérospatiale facility based in Toulouse, Occitania, France as the first Airbus A300 aircraft ever built, the prototype aircraft took its first flight on October 28th, 1972.
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body medium-to-long range airliner; it has the distinction of being the first twin-engine wide-body aircraft in the world. [8] [9]: 34 [12]: 57, 60 [19] In 1977, the A300 became the first Extended Range Twin Operations (ETOPS)-compliant aircraft, due to its high performance and safety standards.
The following is a list of orders, deliveries and backlog for the Airbus A330 by model as of 31 December 2024: Ord — number of aircraft ordered from Airbus by the specified customer; Del — number of aircraft delivered by Airbus to the specified customer; Bl — number of aircraft still to be delivered to the specified customer
The airline took delivery of its first Airbus A300 in 1997, and its first Airbus A320 in February 1999. In 2001, Qatar Airways ordered two Airbus A380 aircraft, becoming the ninth operator of the type. The first A380 was delivered in 2014. The airline also added Airbus A321s, Airbus A330s, and Airbus A340s from 2004 to 2006.
It was the launch of the A320 in 1987 that guaranteed the status of Airbus as a major player in the aircraft market [26] – the aircraft had over 400 orders before it first flew, compared to 15 for the A300 in 1972. Airbus A320, the first model in the A318, A319, A320 and A321 family, introduced in 1988
An Airbus A350-1000 was flown to Sydney from Toulouse via Perth wearing Qantas decals to celebrate this order. The 238 seats will be split into six first class suites (three-abreast), 52 business class suites (four-abreast), 40 premium economy seats at 40″ pitch (eight-abreast) and 140 economy class seats at 33″ pitch (nine-abreast).
After months of waiting, Emirates unveiled its first of 65 Airbus A350-900 aircraft on November 27. ... Emirates has 205 of Boeing's new aircraft on order, holding 40% of the world's 503 total ...
First South American operator Aerostan: 2 2 AeroUnion: 7 3 Afriqiyah Airways: 2 Air Afrique: 4 4 Ceased operations in 2002 Air Algérie: 1 2 A300B1 leased from Trans European Airways A300B4 leased from Lufthansa: Air Atlanta Icelandic: 9 Air France: 11 14 Launch customer of the A300 Air Hong Kong: 1 13 5 Air India: 5 Air Inter: 16 6 Merged into ...