Lufthansa’s final A340-600 flights close a long-running chapter in premium quadjet travel.

Airbus is being warned that it must take steps to adapt technologies developed for the A350 to dramatically improve the A340-600 if it is not to lose Emirates’ deferred order for up to 18 aircraft.

Investigators are trying to establish why engine runs being undertaken on the Etihad Airways Airbus A340-600 involved in the Toulouse ground-test accident on 15 November were not being carried out in ...

The A340-600 is quickly exiting from major airline service, a victim of the coronavirus downturn. Its last two large airline operators, Iberia and Lufthansa, are parking the four-engined jet known for ...

The question of whether the Airbus A350 is bigger than the Airbus A340 might seem simple at first, but “size” in aviation isn’t always about raw fuselage length. Airlines, airports, and aviation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the A380 superjumbo is enjoying a steady resurgence after having been on the brink of retirement during the pandemic, its ...

The afterlife of a decommissioned airplane can take many forms nowadays. Some are dismantled and used as parts, others simply end up in aircraft graveyards, while a select few are reinvented as modern ...

Lufthansa orders 20 more widebodies as its long-haul fleet transformation gathers pace.

DUBAI, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Emirates, the largest Arab airline, has cancelled an order for as many as 20 long-range Airbus A340-600 aircraft, ending a delay in the delivery of the aircraft pending ...

Airbus and French authorities launched an investigation Friday into an accident involving an A340-600 carrying out engine runup tests at the manufacturer's Saint-Martin site near Toulouse ahead of the ...

Airbus A340-600, latest addition to the A340 aircraft family, made its first flight yesterday. The A340-600, which seats 380 passengers and has a range of 7,500 nautical miles -- is scheduled to enter ...

While the A380 superjumbo is enjoying a steady resurgence after having been on the brink of retirement during the pandemic, its older sibling – another four-engined aircraft from Airbus – seems ...