Airbus A3xx series

The Airbus A3xx series is Airbus's A3xx of airliners. It is comparable to Boeing's 7x7 range of aircraft.

Note that the "A3XX" (with uppercase X's) designation was the original designation for the A380 before its entry into service.^[1]

Airliners[edit]

Airbus currently has 10 aircraft in its A3xx series, including 4 in the Airbus A320 family.

A300 & A310: The A3xx product line started with the A300, the world's first twin-aisle, twin-engined aircraft. A shorter, re-winged, re-engined variant of the A300 is known as the A310.

A320 family: Building on the A300 and A310's success, Airbus created the Airbus A320 family. The first member of the A320 family to be launched was the Airbus A320 with its innovative fly-by-wire control system. The A320 has been, and continues to be, a great commercial success. The A318 and A319 are shorter derivatives with some of the latter under construction for the business jet market (Airbus Corporate Jet). A stretched version is known as the A321 and is proving competitive with later models of the Boeing 737.

A330 & A340: The longer-range widebody products, the twin-jet A330 and the four-engine A340, have efficient wings, enhanced by winglets. The Airbus A340-500 has an operating range of 16,700 kilometres (9,000 nmi), the second longest range of any commercial jet after the Boeing 777-200LR (range of 17,446 km or 9,420 nautical miles).

A380: In June 1994, Airbus began developing its own very large airliner, both to complete its own range of products and to break the dominance that Boeing had enjoyed in this market segment since the early 1970s with its 747. On 19 December 2000, the supervisory board of newly restructured Airbus voted to launch a €8.8-billion programme to build the A380 - the world's largest commercial aircraft with a length of 73m and wingspan of 80m. It has a maximum seating capacity of 853, the highest in any aircraft.

A350: The A350 was born as an A330-derived minimum-changed competitor to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the larger Boeing 777, but was unanimously rejected by prospective customers. Airbus was forced to redesign the initial proposal. The redesigned A350 was marketed by Airbus as the A350 XWB, where the XWB stands for Extra Wide Body. The airliner has successfully been launched and first flew on June the 14th 2013. The A350 is a long range airliner with a maximum range of about 19,100 km which will replace the A330s and A340s.

Out of production[edit]

Airbus A300-600/A300-600F
Airbus A310
Airbus A340

Product details[edit]

Aircraft	Description	Normal Seat Number	Maximum Seat Number	Launch date	First flight	First delivery	Production ceased and/or number built, or number ordered, built, and to be built
A300	2 engines, twin aisle	228–254	361	May 1969	28 October 1972	May 1974 Air France	27 March 2007 (561 built)
A310	2 engines, twin aisle, modified A300	187	279	July 1978	3 April 1982	December 1985 Air Algérie	27 March 2007 (255 built)
A318	2 engines, single aisle, shortened 6.17 m from A320	107	117	April 1999	15 January 2002	October 2003 Frontier Airlines	80 built
A319	2 engines, single aisle, shortened 3.77 m from A320	124	156	June 1993	25 August 1995	April 1996 Swissair	In Production (1472 ordered/1434 built/38 to be built)
A320	2 engines, single aisle	150	180	March 1984	22 February 1987	March 1988 Air France	In Production (4753 ordered/3889 built/864 to be built)
A321	2 engines, single aisle, lengthened 6.94 m from A320	185	220	November 1989	11 March 1993	January 1994 Lufthansa	In Production (1585 ordered/1050 built/535 to be built)
A330	2 engines, twin aisle	253–295	406–440	June 1987	2 November 1992	December 1993 Air Inter	In Production (1352 ordered/1167 built/185 to be built)
A340	4 engines, twin aisle	239–380	420–440	June 1987	25 October 1991	January 1993 Lufthansa	10 November 2011 (377 built)
A350 XWB	2 engines, twin aisle	270–350	550	2006	14 June 2013	22 December 2014^[2] Qatar Airways	In Production (780 ordered/8 built/772 to be built)
A380	4 engines, double deck, twin aisle	555	853	2002	27 April 2005	15 October 2007 Singapore Airlines	In Production (318 ordered/154 built/164 to be built)

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