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The A340-600 has five doors per side, as seen here on a since-retired Iberia aircraft. Designed to replace early-generation Boeing 747-200/300 airliners, the A340-600 can carry 379 passengers in a three-class cabin layout for 13,900 km (7,500 nmi; 8,600 mi). It provides a passenger capacity similar to a 747 but with 25 per cent more cargo ...
To be replaced with Airbus A350-900 by 2025. [7] Syrian Air: 2 2 TAM Linhas Aéreas: 2 Leased from Air Canada: TAP Air Portugal: 4 Thai Airways International: 4 6 Turkish Airlines: 9 Includes one aircraft nicknamed Deli Mike: Virgin Atlantic: 10 19 Launch customer of A340-600 Virgin Nigeria: 2 Leased from Virgin Atlantic: XL Airways France: 1 ...
A worrying sign of the A340’s imminent demise is that there are currently no airlines operating the A340-500 variant, which Airbus introduced in 2003 as the world’s longest-range commercial ...
In 2018, a previously stored Airbus A340-600 registered G-VNAP was returned to active use by Virgin Atlantic, and was renamed from Sleeping Beauty to Sleeping Beauty Rejuvenated. It additionally received a special "thank you" livery dedicated to its 9,000 employees. [ 137 ]
日本語: エアバスA330とエアバスA340の航続距離と標準座席数。 ... English: Seating capacity versus range of Airbus A330 and A340.
The older Airbus A340-300 aircraft were withdrawn from service in April 2015, as rising costs had made it less economical to run the type. Virgin Atlantic had begun to replace the A340-300 on routes with the two-engine A330-300 and 787-9. The final Virgin Atlantic A340-300 flight was made on 9 April, landing at Heathrow early on 10 April. [30]
UK-based rivals British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways have equally comfortable seats, but I like Virgin's food and amenities better. I flew the UK's 2 major airlines across the Atlantic.
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A340-311, registered G-VSKY with manufacturer serial number 016. It made its first flight on 3 November 1993 and was delivered soon after to Virgin Atlantic on 21 January 1994. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had flown 19,323 hours.