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A340-300 leased from Gulf Air: Emirates: 8 10 Launch customer of A340-500 Etihad Airways: 1 4 7 A340-300 sold to Hi Fly A340-600 sold to European Aviation Eurowings: 2 Operated by Brussels Airlines: Government, Corporate, Private and undisclosed 5 33 7 24 69 Finnair: 7 Garuda Indonesia: 3 Leased from China Southwest Airlines: Gulf Air: 10 ...
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, the A350 ...
Air Canada was supposed to be the launch customer but filed for bankruptcy in January 2003, delaying delivery to March. This allowed early deliveries to the new launch customer, Emirates, allowing the carrier to launch nonstop service from Dubai to New York—its first route in the Americas. The A340-500 can fly 313 passengers in a three-class ...
In 1999, SIA made an order for five A340-500 with an option for five additional aircraft. The first aircraft was delivered on 15 October 2003. [ 96 ] In 2008, the airline re-configured its A340-500s from 64 business class [ a ] and 117 premium economy [ b ] seats to an all-business configuration with 100 seats.
It had plans to launch long-haul flights to cities in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania with deliveries of new aircraft. All long-haul routes were operated on the Airbus A330-200 . On the day of suspension of all international operations, 10 April 2012, Kingfisher Airlines served 25 domestic destinations within India. [ 29 ]
The flights were operated from 28 June 2004 [1] to 23 November 2013, [2] using an Airbus A340-500, and again from 11 October 2018 [3] using an Airbus A350-900ULR until operations were suspended on 25 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 27 March 2022, Singapore Airlines resumed operations using an Airbus A350-900ULR.
Airbus A340-300: 13 1995 2008 Replaced by Boeing 777-300ER. [20] Airbus A340-500: 2 2004 2007 Disposed to TAM Airlines. Replaced by Boeing 777-200LR. [20] Avro Lancastrian: Unknown 1943 1947 [20] BAe 146-200: 5 1990 2005 Operated by Air BC. [20] 5 Operated by Air Nova. Boeing 727-200: 30 1974 1992 [20] Boeing 737-200: 44 1976 2004
On 16 November 2003, Emirates ordered 41 Airbus aircraft, comprising 2 A340-500s, 18 A340-600s and 21 A380-800s. On 20 November 2005, Emirates announced firm orders for 42 Boeing 777 aircraft, in a deal worth Dhs 35.7 billion (US$9.7 billion) at list prices. This was the largest-ever order for the Boeing 777 family of aircraft and consisted of ...