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The Airbus A350 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine airliner developed and produced by Airbus. The initial A350 design proposed in 2004, in response to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, would have been a development of the Airbus A330 with composite wings and new engines.
The airline also added Airbus A321s, Airbus A330s, and Airbus A340s starting between 2004 and 2006. In May 2007, Qatar Airways and Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding, with the airline ordering 80 brand new Airbus A350s. Qatar Airways became the launch customer of the A350, taking delivery of its first aircraft in December 2014.
Emirates' Airbus A300B4-200 fleet was retired from service by the end of 1987. Emirates' Airbus A300-600Rs were retired in 2002 and replaced by Airbus A330-200s. The Boeing 727-200/Advs remained in service with the airline for nine years, and were sold in 1995. The Boeing 737-300 remained in service for two years from 1985 to 1987.
Lufthansa operates a mainline fleet consisting of Airbus narrow and widebody and Boeing widebody aircraft. [1][2] The mainline fleet is composed of seven different aircraft families: the Airbus A320 and A320neo, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Airbus A350, Airbus A380, Boeing 747 and Boeing 787. Additionally, Lufthansa currently has orders placed for ...
Fleet overview. 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 US airline. [7][8][9][10] Alongside United Airlines, it is one of only two airlines operating the Boeing 767-400ER. Delta primarily uses narrow-body aircraft ...
The largest operators are Singapore Airlines (64), Qatar Airways (53), Cathay Pacific (42), Delta Air Lines (30), Air China (27), Thai Airways International (23) and Lufthansa (21). First operator in France. 14 A350-1000 orders were converted into A350-900, deliveries and introduction in service began in 2024.
To celebrate this order, an Airbus A350-1000 was flown to Sydney from Toulouse via Perth wearing Qantas decals. The 238 seats will be split into 6 first class suites (three-abreast), 52 business class suites (four-abreast), 40 premium economy seats at 40″ pitch (eight-abreast) and 140 economy class seats at 33″ pitch (nine-abreast).
The Finnish flag carrier also has considered switching some of the orders for the Airbus A350-900 to the Airbus A350-1000 aircraft but decided to keep the orders for only the A350-900. At the beginning of 2017, Finnair revealed plans to add more seats to some of the Airbus A350 aircraft in order to increase capacity by up to 13%.