Operators
There were 214 Airbus A340 aircraft in commercial service as of November 2022 [update] . [1] [ needs update ]
Set out below is a list of former and current operators of the Airbus A340 airliner.
There were 214 Airbus A340 aircraft in commercial service as of November 2022 [update] . [1] [ needs update ]
The following is a list of orders and deliveries for the Airbus A340 by variant. [1]
| Customer | Orders | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A340-200 | A340-300 | A340-500 | A340-600 | Total | |
| Air Canada | 8 | 2 | 10 | ||
| Air China | 3 | 3 | |||
| Air France | 3 | 11 | 14 | ||
| Air Mauritius | 5 | 5 | |||
| Air Tahiti Nui | 4 | 4 | |||
| AJW Capital Partners | 2 | 2 | |||
| Arik Air | 2 | 2 | |||
| Austrian Airlines | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Cathay Pacific | 11 | 11 | |||
| China Airlines | 6 | 6 | |||
| China Eastern Airlines | 5 | 5 | 10 | ||
| China Southwest Airlines | 3 | 3 | |||
| EgyptAir | 3 | 3 | |||
| Emirates | 10 | 10 | |||
| Etihad Airways | 4 | 7 | 11 | ||
| Finnair | 4 | 4 | |||
| Flightlease | 2 | 2 | |||
| Governments; Executive and Private | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| Gulf Air | 6 | 6 | |||
| Iberia | 18 | 16 | 34 | ||
| International Lease Finance Corporation | 16 | 13 | 29 | ||
| Kuwait Airways | 4 | 4 | |||
| LAN-Chile | 4 | 4 | |||
| Lufthansa | 7 | 28 | 24 | 59 | |
| Olympic Airlines | 4 | 4 | |||
| Philippine Airlines | 4 | 4 | 8 | ||
| Qatar Airways | 4 | 4 | |||
| Sabena | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||
| Scandinavian Airlines | 7 | 7 | |||
| Singapore Airlines | 17 | 5 | 22 | ||
| South African Airways | 6 | 6 | 12 | ||
| SriLankan Airlines | 3 | 3 | |||
| Swiss International Air Lines | 9 | 9 | |||
| TAP Air Portugal | 4 | 4 | |||
| Thai Airways | 4 | 6 | 10 | ||
| Turkish Airlines | 7 | 7 | |||
| Union de Transports Aériens [note 1] | 7 | 7 | |||
| Virgin Atlantic | 7 | 14 | 21 | ||
| Totals | 28 | 218 | 34 | 97 | 377 |
Finnair is the flag carrier and largest full-service legacy airline of Finland, with headquarters in Vantaa on the grounds of Helsinki Airport, its hub. Finnair and its subsidiaries dominate both domestic and international air travel in Finland. Its major shareholder is the government of Finland, which owns 55.9% of its shares. Finnair is a member of the Oneworld airline alliance.
Air Mauritius is the flag carrier airline of Mauritius. The airline is headquartered in Port Louis, Mauritius, with its hub at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport.
Swiss International Air Lines AG, stylized as SWISS, is the flag carrier of Switzerland and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, as well as a Star Alliance member. It operates scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Zurich Airport serves as its main hub and Geneva Airport as its secondary hub.
The Airbus A340 is a long-range, wide-body passenger airliner that was developed and produced by Airbus. In the mid-1970s, Airbus conceived several derivatives of the A300, its first airliner, and developed the A340 quadjet in parallel with the A330 twinjet. In June 1987, Airbus launched both designs with their first orders and the A340-300 took its maiden flight on 25 October 1991. It was certified along with the A340-200 on 22 December 1992 and both versions entered service in March 1993 with launch customers Lufthansa and Air France. The larger A340-500/600 were launched on 8 December 1997; the A340-600 flew for the first time on 23 April 2001 and entered service on 1 August 2002.
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body aircraft developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus conceived several derivatives of the A300, its first airliner from the mid-1970s. Then the company began development on the A330 twinjet in parallel with the A340 quadjet and launched both designs with their first orders in June 1987. The A330-300, the first variant, took its maiden flight in November 1992 and entered service with Air Inter in January 1994. The slightly shorter A330-200 variant followed in 1998.
Mahan Airlines, operating under the name Mahan Air, is a privately owned Iranian airline based in Tehran, Iran. It operates scheduled domestic services and international flights to the Far East, Middle East, Central Asia and Europe. Its main home bases are Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport and Mehrabad International Airport.
Lufthansa CityLine GmbH is a German airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Munich Airport. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa and maintains hubs at Frankfurt Airport and Munich Airport, from where it operates a dense domestic and European network as a member of Lufthansa Regional.
Edelweiss Air AG is a Swiss leisure and charter airline and the sister company of Swiss International Air Lines and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. It operates flights to European and intercontinental destinations from its base at Zürich Airport.
Línea Aérea Conviasa is a Venezuelan airline with its headquarters on the grounds of Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Venezuela, near Caracas. It is the flag carrier and largest airline of Venezuela, operating services to domestic destinations and destinations in the Caribbean and South America. Conviasa is known to make routes from a political perspective rather than a financial standpoint.
The Konrad Adenauer is a German aircraft used by the government for official travel and diplomatic business. It is named after German statesman Konrad Adenauer. Like all German governmental aircraft, the Konrad Adenauer is operated by the Executive Transport Wing of the German Air Force at Cologne Bonn Airport and Berlin Brandenburg Airport. Three different aircraft have carried the name, an Airbus A310, an Airbus A340 and an Airbus A350.
The Emirates fleet is composed of two wide-bodied aircraft families, the Airbus A380 and Boeing 777. The airline also has the Airbus A350-900, Boeing 777X and Boeing 787 aircraft on order.
Lufthansa operates a mainline fleet consisting of Airbus narrow and widebody and Boeing widebody aircraft. The mainline fleet is composed of seven different aircraft families: the Airbus A320, Airbus A330, Airbus A340, Airbus A350, Airbus A380, Boeing 747 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Additionally, Lufthansa currently has orders placed for new Airbus A320neo, Airbus A350 and Boeing 777X aircraft. They have also placed an order for 40 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft with an optional 60, making it the first order of Boeing single aisle aircraft in 40 years. In the following years, the 777X will replace all Boeing 747-400 aircraft in the fleet, and the 787 and A350 will replace all remaining Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft, respectively.
Meraj Airlines is an Iranian privately owned airline that is based at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport and Imam Khomeini International Airport.
Virgin Atlantic operates a fleet consisting exclusively of widebody twinjet aircraft from both Airbus and Boeing.
