June 23, 200223 yr I was going to repaint an A340, and was looking to see which airlines operated them, specifically US carriers. I found that no US carriers had A340s in their fleet. Is this true? It probably is, I've never seen an A340 in any US based airline's livery. I found that between 1989 & 1991, Northwest had an order for 24 A340-300s. & Continental had an order for 7.
June 24, 200223 yr http://www.airbus.com/doc/media/ordersndel...es/od_may02.xlsHere is a download of all Airbus operators for all Airbuses.Yes, it looks as if no US operators have the A340, Air Canada is the closest. :-outtahttp://publish.hometown.aol.com/p3superb/images/675-2n.jpg
June 24, 200223 yr I wonder why no US airlines have A340's ? Mind you, I don't think that any UK airlines have them either. Come on British Airways, what are you doing ? A few A340-500's in the near future would be nice.Air Jamaica have these aircraft in their colourful scheme.Chris Low,ENGLAND. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
June 24, 200223 yr Virgin Atlantic are the only users of A340s in UKThey are also launch customer for A340-600.Craig
June 24, 200223 yr No, A340's in the US Airline Fleet.....maybe has something to do with a guy name William who started making some little planes up in the Pacific Northwest back in the early 1900's. lol........:-outtahttp://publish.hometown.aol.com/p3superb/images/675-2n.jpg
June 24, 200223 yr Well, someone at Boeing must have s--- a brick when Northwest ordered all those A330's to replace all of there DC10's with over the 777. That had to hurt. Eric
June 25, 200223 yr Yes, and NWA ordered 36 of them. one of only 2 US operators of the A330 now (NWA, US Airways). Someone at Boeing would have REALLY s*** a brick if they would have ordered the A340s, but it seems as if Boeing talked them out of it. Same goes w/ Continental.
June 25, 200223 yr Well, Airbus isn't crying too much, try to count the number of A319, A320, and A321's that now live at U.S. carriers.BTW, I believe the Air Jamaica A340's are ex-Air Canada. After 911, and a general slump in the industry, Air Canada dumped a few of their leased A340-300's.
June 25, 200223 yr BWIA have got one A340 about now - and another's expected to join later this year, to replace their 3 L1011's. I think both had seen service previously with Air Canada. I'll be flying out to Antigua on the Tristar in July, and returning on the A340 - my first flight on the type.http://www.airliners.net/open.file/246710/M/Rob
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