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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.
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.
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
Replacing Airbus A330ceo family. Order with 20 options. [8] Airbus A350-900: 7 3 4 35 27 220 286 [9] To have Business Suites removed and replaced with new Business Class cabins. [10] One aircraft acquired from Scandinavian Airlines to be retrofitted with the new Business Class cabin and unified after 2025. [11] [12] — 40 32 228 300 [13 ...
An A380-800 in its original Airbus livery. ... First delivery Reference Air France: 30 October 2009 ... Order Type Options Engine Press Release/Update;
First U.S. operator Easy Charter 1 1 1 Egyptair: 10 12 Egyptair Cargo: 2 2 Emirates: 1 6 A300B4 leased from Pakistan International Airlines: Etihad Airways: 3 Leased from Air Atlanta Icelandic: European Air Transport: 19 1 Merged into European Air Transport Leipzig in 2010 European Air Transport Leipzig: 24 24 FedEx Express: 71 65 Largest A300 ...
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.
Airbus had identified a demand for an aircraft smaller than the Airbus A300, the first twin-jet wide-body. It was manufactured from 1981-1998. Airbus A320, the company's best-selling airliner. Building on its success with the A300, Airbus worked to develop a narrow-body aircraft along with additional wide-body aircraft based on the A300.