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Airbus intended the A330 to compete in the Extended-range Twin-engine Operation Performance Standards (ETOPS) market, specifically with the Boeing 767. [113] (ETOPS is a standard that allows longer range flights away from a diversion airport for aircraft that have met special design and testing standards.)
Airlines have selected the A330 as a replacement for less economical trijets, and versus rival twinjets. Boeing has offered variants of the 767 as direct competitors, along with the 787 which entered service in 2011. Airbus's A350 also shares this wide-body airliner market. As of November 2022, the A330's order book contained 1,764 airframes ...
As Airbus builds only one new freighter, the A330-200F, selling poorly with 42 orders including 38 already delivered, Boeing is almost in a monopoly and can keep producing the 767F and 777F while the 767 and older 777 passenger variants are not selling anymore.
Airbus A319-100: 93 — — 12 112 124 All were transferred to American Airlines. Airbus A320-200: 60 — — 12 138 150 Airbus A321-200: 90 31 — 16 171 187 All fleet and remaining deliveries transferred to American Airlines. Airbus A330-200: 11 4 20 — 238 258 All fleet and remaining deliveries transferred to American Airlines and later ...
The Boeing 767 is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. ... The type's closest competitor is the Airbus A330-200.
Delta operates the largest fleets of the Airbus A220, Boeing 717, and Boeing 757, the largest passenger fleet of the Boeing 767, and the largest Airbus A330 fleet of any American carrier. [citation needed] Alongside United Airlines, it is one of only two airlines operating the Boeing 767-400ER. [citation needed]
At the Boeing 787 launch in 2004, Airbus' initial response was an improved A330. After negative feedback from airlines and lessors, the A350 XWB became a new design in 2006. After the A320neo launch in December 2010 and its commercial success, the largest airline of Malaysia – an all-Airbus operator – AirAsia asked Airbus to re-engine the ...
As express delivery spurs an air cargo resurgence, Boeing plans to increase the CF6-80C2-powered 767 delivery rate from 2.5 to 3 per month in 2020, a type introduced in 1982. As CF6-80E1s are still delivered for the Airbus A330 and Airbus A330 MRTT, CF6 production will grow from 50 to 60-80 per