The Airbus A340 is one of the most iconic jets ever produced by Airbus, and it is a long-range wide-body quad-engine passenger airliner that was originally developed alongside the twin-engine Airbus ...

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 ...

A new British airline is building its future on outdated, fuel-thirsty Airbus widebodies that most major carriers have spent ...

An Edelweiss Airbus A340-300 experienced a bird strike on December 1, 2025, during its landing at Zurich Airport (ZRH) in ...

Tour company White Desert uses private jets to shuttle people to its Antarctic camps from South Africa. The largest option is the quad-engine Airbus A340, which touched down on the ice for the first ...

Meanwhile, European and Asian airlines continued to rely on quadjets for decades, thanks to concentrated hub networks, ...

For years, Airbus has dominated the commercial aircraft space alongside Boeing, offering flight options for both freight and passengers. As you might expect, the company has an impressive catalog of ...

The Air France jetliner that burst into flames after crashing in Toronto is the first A340 plane to crash since the craft was introduced by manufacturer Airbus more than a decade ago. The plane 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 ...

Airbus intends to later this month start flight-testing an A340 that has been fitted with experimental laminar-flow wing sections under a partially EU-funded technology project with other industrial ...