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The 2005 Logan Airport runway incursion was a near-collision that occurred at approximately 7:40 p.m. EDT on June 9, 2005, between Aer Lingus Flight 132 and US Airways Flight 1170. EI132 was an Airbus A330-300 aircraft, owned and operated by the Irish airline Aer Lingus, destined for Shannon, Ireland , and carrying 12 crew members and 260 ...
The Airbus A330-900 maintains the A330-300's fuselage dimensions with 10 more seats thanks to cabin optimisation. [156] With modern Trent 7000 engines and redesigned winglets , it should burn 14% less fuel per seat than the A330-300 over a distance of 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi). [ 159 ]
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body, dual-isle, twin-engine jet airliner made by Airbus. Versions of the A330 have a range of 7,400 to 13,430 kilometres (4,000 to 7,250 nautical miles ), and can accommodate up to 335 passengers in a two-class layout , or carry 70 tonnes (150,000 pounds ) of cargo.
Also in October 2022, Aer Lingus UK announced that its Manchester-New York JFK service would be operated by the Airbus A330-300 instead of the Airbus A321LR from April 2023. Subsequently, increasing capacity on this route, the returning of a second A330-300 to the UK fleet and the return of the A321LR to its Irish parent.
Leased from Aer Lingus for Little Red services. [11] [12] Airbus A321-200: 1 2000 2001 Named Hellenic Beauty leased for a London to Athens service to replace an A320-200. [10] [13] Airbus A330-200: 4 2018 2022 All four were refurbished former Air Berlin aircraft. Withdrawn from service early due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, exited ...
In 1994, Aer Lingus started direct services between Dublin and the United States using the Airbus A330 and in May of that year, Aer Lingus operated the first A330-300 ETOPS service over the North Atlantic. This led to the phasing out of the Boeing 747 and the briefly operated Boeing 767-300ER. On 2 October 1995, the Boeing 747 service ceased ...
On June 9, 2005, US Airways Flight 1170 and Aer Lingus Flight 132 narrowly avoided colliding after they were cleared for takeoff nearly simultaneously on intersecting runways by two different air traffic controllers. The crew of the US Airways flight spotted the oncoming Aer Lingus jet and avoided a collision by keeping their own aircraft on ...
US Airways, now merged with American Airlines, have first-class flatbed seats in their Airbus A330-300s with a seat pitch of 94 inches (2 inches short of 8 feet) or 240 cm (2.4 meters) [15] In 2010 the seat pitch on low-cost carriers could be as low as 28 inches (71 cm) in the case of Spirit Airlines but was typically 29 inches (74 cm) or 30 ...