31 Years of Airbus A340 Operations

It was the Airbus A340-200, entering service with Lufthansa (LH) on its daily flight from Frankfurt to New York (JFK) 31 years ago this month.

This airplane has changed the course of the commercial aviation industry. Now that its operational life is slowly ending, we wanted to share the legacy the Airbus A340 family has left.

As of January 2024, only 70 out of 377 Airbus A340 jets remain active. Airways collected the history, variants, records, and interesting anecdotes of one of Airbus’s most iconic aircraft.

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