Airbus A340-600 | |
South African Airways is the national airline of South Africa. It flies nine Airbus A340-600 aircraft as a replacement for older Boeing 747s. The aircraft were delivered in the years 2002-2005. The A340-600 on the picture is seen while approaching London Heathrow Airport.
Airbus A340 | |
Qatar Airways is the national airline of Qatar, one of the United Arab Emirates. It is a very ambitious airline, inspired by the very successful neighbouring airline Emirates from Dubai. The homebase of Qatar Airways is Doha International Airport.
The airline flies mainly widebody airliners, including the Airbus A340-600. The aircraft on the picture is approaching London Heathrow Airport.
Airbus A340 | |
Lufthansa introduced the Airbus A340-600 in late 2003 and ordered a total of seventeen. The aircraft replaced a number of older Boeing 747 models. The picture is taken at Lufthansa's main base Frankfurt Rhein/Main Airport.
Airbus A340-500 | |
Etihad Airways is one of only a small number of users of the super-long-range Airbus A340-500. The ambitious Abu Dhabi airline flies four aircraft of the type, all delivered in 2006. Etihad also flies the longer A340-600, of which it has ordered eight.
The A340-500 on the photograph is approaching London Heathrow Airport.
Airbus A340 | |
THY Turkish Airlines, the national airline of Turkey, received its first of seven Airbus A340-300 airliners in 1993. The aircraft on the picture is ready for departure from Zürich Kloten Airport.
Airbus A340 | |
TAP Air Portugal flies four Airbus A340-300 aircraft on long-haul and high-density services. The first of these airliners was delivered in December 1994. The aircraft on the picture is seen while approaching London Heathrow.
Airbus A340 | |
Current widebody types in the fleet of Swiss International Air Lines are the Airbus A330 and the A340. Of the A340-300 the airline has 15 aircraft in service. Swiss was formed from the regional carrier Crossair after the collapse of the Swiss national airline Swissair in 2002 and in 2005 the airline was taken over by Lufthansa.
On the photograph a Swiss Airbus A340 is ready for departure at its homebase Zürich Kloten Airport.
Airbus A340 | |
SriLankan is the national airline of Sri Lanka and was formerly known als Air Lanka. The current name was adopted in 1999 after privatisation and after Emirates acquired a 40 per cent minority stake in the airline.
Air Lanka once flew widebodies like the Lockheed TriStar and for a short time the Boeing 747. Today's SriLankan operates Airbus A330-200 and A340-300 aircraft. The aircraft on the picture is an A340-300 approaching London Heathrow.
Airbus A340 | |
Olympic is the national airline of Greece. It flies four Airbus A340-300 aircraft as replacements for early-model Boeing 747s. All four aircraft were delivered in December 2003. The Airbus on the picture is approaching London Heathrow.
Airbus A340 | |
Lufthansa, the national airline of Germany, flies a large intercontinental fleet, including Airbus A340-300, A340-600, Airbus A330-200, A330-300 and Boeing 747. Together with Air France, Lufthansa was the first operator of the Airbus A340-200. The first aircraft were delivered in 1993 and a total of nine A340-200's were taken from the factory. Already in the same year Lufthansa received its first of 29 stretched Airbus A340-300 aircraft. They were replacing the DC-10. Later Lufthansa also bought the much bigger A340-600.
The large photograph shows an Airbus A340-300 taking off from Düsseldorf Airport in Germany, from where the airline offers a small number of intercontinental destinations. On the small photograph below is a Lufthansa A340 in Star Alliance colours departing Frankfurt.
Airbus A340 | |
LAN was founded in 1929 as a Chilean airline. The airline was privatised in 1989 and took over Chile's second airline Ladeco in 1995. LAN started taking over airlines in other Latin-American countries as well and baptised them LAN Dominicana, LAN Peru, LAN Ecuador etc.
In 2004 all these airlines were unified under a common 'LAN Airlines' brand and a new livery was adopted for the whole group. This livery is shown on the picture above. On the picture below is an Airbus A340-300 in the old LAN Chile livery.
LAN has ordered a total of six A340-300s. The first four of these aircraft were delivered in July 2004.
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