Once a staple of long-haul travel and a symbol of Airbus’ ambition to rival Boeing’s widebodies, the four-engine Airbus A340 ...

Lufthansa plans to retire its fleet of Airbus A340-600s at the start of 2026 as the airline introduces more efficient ...

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On April 24th, Lufthansa Group’s ... completed its final C-Check on the A340-600, bidding the aircraft farewell. We’ve known for some time now that this Airbus quadjet is being taken out ...

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Lufthansa Group said it would streamline its long-haul fleet by decommissioning Airbus A340-300, A340-600, A330-200 and Boeing 747-400 sub-fleets by 2028 as part of a turnaround plan for its main ...

Yesterday, Lufthansa brought its beloved Airbus A380 ... the airline’s A380 has around 80 percent more capacity than its Airbus A340-600, which currently flies on the Washington DC-Munich ...

For example, the A340-600 is 247 feet long compared ... had 27 in its employ. As of 2022, Lufthansa was slowly phasing out the Airbus in favor of Boeing's 787. Airbus never had a corner market ...

When Airbus developed the A350, it used a clean-sheet design rather than innovating its previous widebodies, like the four-engine Airbus A340 ... with nearly 600 on order, according to Airbus.

From those, the -400 variant was discarded afterward, leaving a gap in the naming of the A340 family, while the -500 and -600 versions went on into production. Lufthansa and Air France were the launch ...

Kennedy International Airport to Frankfurt, Germany and back for February 2022. The point of this trip was to fly on Lufthansa’s Airbus A340-600, as I’d long wanted to, but had never had things work ...