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Lufthansa opera a los legendarios aviones A340 más allá de las expectativas de la industria para servirse las oportunidades de recuperación de la pandemia y las brechas de transición de la flota de puentes #A340 #Alla #aprovechar #av...
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In 2027, VietJet stunned the world by reviving the A340 - because their CEO wanted a jet “as long as a dragon and with room for karaoke.” Airbus had a dozen Neo prototypes lying around. VietJet bought 6, got 2 free, and a lifetime supply of cabin air freshener. #QuadJetForThePeople #A340

A VietJet Air Airbus A340 Neo, painted in the airline’s signature red and yellow livery with “VietJetAir.com” and the slogan “Bay là Thích ngay!” on the fuselage, is captured mid-flight over Chiang Mai, Thailand. Below, the city’s buildings are nestled among lush greenery, with the Doi Suthep mountain and Wat Phra That Doi Suthep visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Tails Tuesday 3rd June 2025.

4R-ADC, Airbus A340-311, Air Lanka, rolling along Runway 28 Left for take-off at London Heathrow, some time in the 1990s.

#London #Heathrow #LHR #EGLL #Runway28Left #Airbus #A340 #AirLanka #TailsTuesday
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of the rear fuselage and tail of a 4 engined jet airliner moving from right to left at a high speed.
The plane is mostly white, with a thick red stripe running along the body, sweeping up into the tail and around the lower rear fuselage.
There is a stylised white flying bird on the tail, above white "Airbus A340" titles, and the white registration "4R-ADC" on the lower rear fuselage.
In the background, a grey terminal building stretches across the frame, with bright yellow airbridges attached to a very large, grey and dark blue jet airliner, with the tail of a similar plane coming in to view on the left of the frame.

Frankfurt Friday 30th May 2025.

A4O-LC, Airbus A340-312, Philippine Airlines, taking off from Frankfurt Airport, 21st September 1996.

#Frankfurt #FRA #EDDF #Airbus #A340 #PhilippineAirlines #FrtankfurtFriday
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Lufthansa Delays A340-600 Retirement to First Half of 2026

https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/154061-lufthansa-postpones-a340-600-retirement-to-1h26
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/airbus-a340/?story=4fbde73c-be9b-4094-8ecb-cebeb2ca44eb
#a340 #lufthansa #aviation

A long goodbye to the Queen of the Skies

There’s no airplane that I’ll miss more when it vanishes from passenger service than the Boeing 747. The original jumbo jet hasn’t just helped to knit the world together since its first revenue flight in 1970, that iconic four-engine widebody has also been a recurring character in my own traveling life for decades.

For the first few of those decades, the Queen of the Skies was more of a regular character for how it owned most overseas itineraries and often soaked up capacity on transcontinental domestic routes. My first flight across the Atlantic that I can remember involved a Pan Am 747; I first flew across the Pacific on a Northwest Airlines 747. And at any airport where the 747 flew, there was no mistaking that aircraft, with its upper-deck hump and quadruple main landing gear, for any other.

(Especially if the 747 in question was one of the two operated by NASA and customized to fly space shuttles across the U.S.)

But by the time I boarded that NW flight from Detroit to Tokyo in 1998, the 747 was already starting to see its commercial sunset as twin-engine widebodies like Boeing’s 777 began securing safety certification to operate increasingly lengthy routes at lower costs than the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011 trijet widebodies that had once been the 747’s primary long-haul competition.

The first decade of this century featured far fewer 747 flights for me, although the one my wife and I took from Dulles to Beijing in 2007 stands out for a different reason: a seating overlap led United to move us up to business class. My final flight on a 747 operated by the airline I’ve flown more than any other came a decade later, when I was able to clear an upgrade and grab the last seat open on the upper deck of a 747-400 flying from San Francisco to Shanghai.

United retired the 747 in November of that year–and since I was at Web Summit in Lisbon that week, I couldn’t spend a ridiculous amount of money on UA’s farewell 747 flight from SFO to Honolulu.

But that was not my own farewell to the 747. Air China, Lufthansa and Korean Air still fly the 747-8, the final version produced, and a press trip to Helsinki in 2022 gave me a chance to apply an upgrade to a Lufthansa flight from Newark to Frankfurt and enjoy one more ride on the 747’s upper deck. The view up there has no equivalent to what you can see from a 777, 787, Airbus A330 or any other single-deck long-range airliner.

And then this Wednesday morning found me boarding yet another LH-operated 747-8, this time with a boarding pass for a seat in the nose. After years of reading trip reviews rhapsodizing about Lufthansa’s first class and reminding readers about how to redeem miles from partner airlines’ programs for that experience, news of an impending devaluation for Lufthansa redemptions made me realize that I had left one 747 flight undone on my checklist.

So I cashed in a large stash of Avianca LifeMiles, collected by leveraging a bank sign-up bonus earned in 2021, to book myself a one-way first-class 747-8 flight from Frankfurt to Dulles, burned some United miles to get myself from Dulles to Frankfurt, and used a Hyatt free-night certificate for the overnight stay in between.

(I wrote a longer breakdown for Patreon readers of the long game involved in this travel hack, including my surprisingly small out-of-pocket costs for this bucket-list trip.)

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve flown across the Atlantic, but I can report that Wednesday’s flight in seat 2K–below the cockpit and ahead of the front landing gear, so far forward that I could not see the wing–stands apart from those other crossings, and not only for the luxury involved.

If I never fly the Queen again–or the two other four-engine long-haul jets in commercial service in the West, the Airbus A340 and A380–that’s okay. But if another opportunity somehow presents itself to fly a 747, preferably upstairs or upfront… it might be hard to turn down.

#747 #7478 #A340 #A380 #avgeek #aviation #Boeing #Boeing747 #bucketList #fourEngineAirliner #jumboJet #Lufthansa #Northwest #PanAm #QueenOfTheSkies #UnitedAirlines #widebody

One of Lufthansa's Boeing 747-8 jets sits parked at gate B47 at Dulles Airport, with IAD's main terminal visible behind it.

'Throw Thursday 24th April 2025.

EC-GUP, Airbus A340-343, Iberia, taxiing past the viewing deck on The Queens Building at London Heathrow, some time between 1998 and 2000.

#London #Heathrow #LHR #EGLL #QueensBuilding #Airbus #A340 #Iberia #ThrowThursday
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a white, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left.
There is a yellow, orange, and red strip coming down from over the top of the forward fuselage and running backwards along the body, with white "Iberia" titles over the wings.
There are a pair of large letters on the tail - a red, lower-case "I" with a gold crown on the dot, and a yellow upper-case "B", with the registration "EC-GUP" at the top of the tail in black.
The white engine pods under the wings have small, red, "Iberia" titles in the middle.
Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with yellowing grass and a runway lead up to more apron and buildings in the distance, with trees beyond, under grey sky.

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#atlanticocean #lufthansa #airbus #A340 #airbuslovers #engine #frankfurt to #bogota #wingview #toiletview

'Throw Thursday27th March 2025.

G-VYOU, Airbus A340-642, Virgin Atlantic, on final approach to Runway 09 Left at London Heathrow, 18th March 2016, as seen from Stanwell Moor Road.

#London #Heathrow #LHR #EGLL #Runway09Left #StanwellMoorRoad #Airbus #A340 #VirginAtlantic #ThrowThursday
#Avgeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a white, 4 engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered and flaps extended from behind the wings, suggesting it is about to land.
The plane has purple "Virgin Atlantic" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with black "A340-600" titles a bit further forward and lower.
The engine pods mounted under the wings are red.
The tail and part of the rear fuselage are the same red, outlined in purple, with seemingly hand-written white "Virgin" titles.
There is an image of a woman wearing a red leotard and trailing a Union Flag from her arms in a flying pose under the cockpit windows.

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Turkish A340 Postcard TC-JDM
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#TurkishAirlines #A340 #Aviation #Avgeek #Airplanes #Planes #Postcard

Airplane is taxing by the viewer from right to left, under clear blue skies.

#Aerotelegraph - Azman Air: Airbus A340 mit Mini-Business-Class wurde von Afrika in den Iran geflogen - https://www.aerotelegraph.com/airbus-a340-mit-mini-business-class-wurde-von-afrika-in-den-iran-geflogen #IranAsemanAirlines #AirbusA340 #Boeing737 #Airlines #A340-600 #AzmanAir #Galerie #737-300 #Nigeria #Airbus #Boeing #Iran

#Aerotelegraph - HB-JMF : Airbus A340 von Edelweiss saß durch Schaden in Cancún fest - https://www.aerotelegraph.com/airbus-a340-von-edelweiss-sass-durch-schaden-in-cancun-fest #AirbusA340 #Edelweiss #Airlines #A340-300 #cancun #HB-JMF #Mexiko

Manchester Monday 3 14th October 2024.

3B-NAT, Airbus A340-312, Air Mauritius, taxiing away from Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990s, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

#Manchester #MAN #EGCC #L13 #Airbus #A340 #AirMauritius #ManchesterAirport
#avgeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

Side view of a white, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left at a slightly misty airport.
There is a thick red stripe running along the body, covering the passenger cabin windows.
The tail is red with a red bird on a white stripe across the top, the same bird appearing on the engine pods slung under the wings.
Grey concrete apron fills the foreground and a large chunk of the background, with a couple of white jet airliners in the distance, with trees beyond that disappearing into haze in the distance, under horrible grey skies.

Airbus A380 F-WWOW #photography #airbus #parisairshow #highlight #xwbairbusa350 #a350900 #a3501000 #a340 #boeing787 #777 #777x #dreamliner #trentxwb #easa #faa (Flickr 19.06.2017) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/35311070991

OH-LKI, Embraer ERJ-190-100LR, FinnAir, stopped on Runway 23 Left awaiting take-off clearance at Manchester Airport, 12th October 2019.EI-CIO, British Aircraft Corporation 1-11-501EX, RyanAir, in basic British Airways colours, taxiing past the Airport Hotel pub on it’s way to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time between June 1993 and March 1994.3B-NAT, Airbus A340-312, Air Mauritius, taxiing away from Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990s, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2024/10/14/manchester-monday-14th-october-2024/

#a340 #airbus #AirMauritius #AirportHotel #avgeek #aviation #bac111 #BritishAircraftCorporation #egcc #embraer #erj190 #finnair #l13 #man #manchester #ManchesterMonday #photography #planespotting #Runway23Left #runway24 #ryanair #southside